Jammie, You can create a swap file on one of those volumes. You won't need to allocate the entire volume. 48MB of storage is pretty tight. I don't know about the new SuSE install, but I ran into problems installing various versions of the Red Hat beta without enough RAM, even though I allocated a large swap partition. Hopefully that won't be an issue for you. Section 16.6.6 of the RedBook you cite talks about how to set up a swap file.
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Hall, Jammie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 10:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: swap file alloc I am running the LPAR and I only have two DASD allocated for this test install 0187 & 0188. I read in an article that you could run without a swap file. Is this true? I have 48MB Memory allocated. I figure I'll run into problems. Can I allocate a partial drive to swap? I do not want to be forced to have a full 2GB allocated to swap. That is extreme I think. I'm install SuSE 7.3 and reading the SuSE install guide and SG24-6264-00 they make me believe I have to allocate the full 2GB. By the way, dasdfmt still going strong. Thanks, j-me
