Its possible for you Win9X dual-boot to share swap space with linux, as
well. Tho why you'd want to is completely beyond me. Maybe when disks were
smaller and more expensive...
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ron Stodden
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 12:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] A Proactive Solution
John Wolford wrote:
> The moral of the story: When installing Mandrake, make sure that it can't
see any other swap
> partitions during the install. (Could it use the old swap, if it wanted
to? Could they share it? I
> don't know.)
You only need one swap partition per system - all Mandrake installs
of whatever version will recognise and use that one swap partition.
It's not sharing, because only one of your Mandrake installations can
be active at any one time.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
