[Rule-list] swapon /swap

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:44 pm, Eugene Wong wrote:

> I think that I made a mistake in explaining myself. If I made a swap
> partition of 32 MB, wouldn't it be good to make use of the unused space
> on the root partition, by having a script create swap files? 32 MB +
> swap file space might help the installation along. Or do I
> misunderstand?

If you have the space to create swap files, why not just make a larger 
swap partition?

> >I'm *really* interested how a slinky install performs on you system
> > (how long do the individual steps take?) since it's the very first
> > i386 I hear of trying to get RULE installed.

I'm rather interested myself. ;)

> I'll keep you guys posted. My aim would be to surf the Internet with
> Netscape 4.7* and have a word processor. I'll probably end up using
> emacs or something. Bear in mind, however, that I'll be installing
> through ftp, which *really* *really* slows things down.

This machine has how much RAM again?  

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