On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 01:36:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear people, > > I ran into a small problem while going through the debian installer for > 3.0r1. > During the hard disk partitioning phase ...how do you createa swap > partition...cos when I try use the command "C [startfreeblock] /dev/sdaX", > select 512Mb then type Linux swap as the type of partition I get an error > about bad size??! Later on when I try to make this swap partition useable > the installer doesn't find it so I always end up choosing "Do Without Swap > partition". ..is the lack of a swap partition really deterimental to > performance? I have a beige g3-400, with 512Mb Ram and 18Gig SCSI > disk.
Instead of creating a partition with a type of Linux swap, which is an invalid partition type, just create a normal Linux partition (using small c) and name it 'swap'. This is covered in the manual, if a bit briefly. Yes, you definitely want a swap partition if at all possible. It's true it may not use it very much with that much RAM, but a lot of software out there wants to know it's there. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
