Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. > Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to > have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each > partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition > which will provide the best performance.
I don't know much when it comes to drives in Debian, so I have a few questions: 1. hdc has been a CD-ROM since the second I booted the Debian install CD. Will anything bad happen if hdc is suddenly a hard disk and hdd is now the CD-ROM? I haven't actually used the CD-ROM since I finished installing, so the only possible trouble spot might be booting. 2. Is there a a how-to or some doc's for this? I made a swap partition with cfdisk in the beginning and let the (excellent) install program figure out the rest. Thus, I never learned much about swap. 3. Since any drive I add will be old and slow (<200MB), is it worth it? That is interesting that when both are given equal priority, the kernel figures out which one is best. I didn't know about that feature. Thank you, Patrick Olson