Subject: Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap Date: Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:57:58PM -0500
In reply to:Andrei Ivanov Quoting Andrei Ivanov([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/hda1 * 1 4063 2047720+ 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda2 4064 8127 2048256 83 Linux native > > /dev/hda3 8128 8400 137592 82 Linux swap > > Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical. > (/dev/hda4 it will be) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Why is this wrong? I have looked at all the swap man pages and find no mention of having to use a logical partition. I also found no reference to that in any of the kernel Doc pages. In fact here is an excerpt from the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt /dev/hda1 from cyl 1 to 992 dos /dev/hda2 from cyl 993 to 1023 swap /dev/hda3 from cyl 1024 to 2100 linux I was supprised to learn from this search, that the swap partition can be as large as 2 Gig, in the 2.2.x kernels. Could you please point me to some references for your statement? Thanks Wayne -- It works! Now if only I could remember what I did... _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>