See below.
At 08:13 AM 11/6/99 +0100, Preble Ryan A1C 31CS/SCBBC wrote:
> I am runnning Caldera 2.2 in dual boot setup with W98 and for some
>reason Linux runs slow compared to (dare I say) W98. Just basic programs
>take longer than they should.
Could you be a bit more specific about which "basic programs" you are having
trouble with, and how they show their slowness? If they are network related,
delays on the order of 2 minutes may be configuration errors associated with
DNS settings, and they can be easily fixed.
> I have a K6-2 400, 192mb RAM, with W98 running on my Maxtor 8.4 hd
>and Caldera running on a Quantum 2.1 hd. Is there a way I can resize my
>swap file because it is only showing 128meg swap partition?
If you have 192 megs of real, physical RAM, swap problems shouldn't be
arising in the course of normal use. Also, swap under Linux isn't (normally)
done to a file; it's done to a dedicated partition on the drive (Linux won't
use your W98 swap file, for example). You might check with "free" to see if
Linux is finding the swap space and if it is using it. (This will also
verify that Linux sees and uses all 192 megs of your RAM -- Caldera 2.2
should be new enough that the 64-meg bug is corrected on it, but I don't
know that first hand. If it isn't, repost and someone can tell you how to
fix it.)
> I am truly a newbie to Linux, but more than willing to give up
>Windows for a superior operating system, but I need a little help doing so.
>
> If you can offer any help with this let me know.
These suggestions (and the ones I saw Kenneth Stephens post) should serve
for starters. Generally speaking, questions that describe problems more
specifically than you have elicit more helpful answers. For general
questions, the Linux-Newbie FAQ (http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs/) is a
handy resource, as are, of course, the LDP resources (http://www.linuxdoc.org/).
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