I just did a net install of Sid using the latest available Sarge installer ISO.
I was working with a new HD, doing a partition table from scratch. The new partitioning tool worked, but I found it rather tedious to use. I got impatient, switched to tty2 and just cfdisked the thing. Then I tried to tell the installer about the partitions I had just formatted. I got everything up and working after that. Used the installer to format them, installed the base system, and away I went. But I wound up with no swap, and I can't remember the Debian way to set it up. It's a low mem box with only 128 MB, so it realllly needs swap. I ran mkswap on the designated partition, and then rebooted at some point thereafter, hoping to make the magic happen. No swap. I notice on this box (also a recent install of Sid, but I did this one using an ISO from February) that I have no reference to swap in /etc/fstab, yet I do definitely have swap. Curiously, I don't even have a swap partition anywhere on the drive I booted off of. The kernel or some Debian script seems to have found the swap partition on my other drive automagically. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
