Does the swap partition have be on a partition in front of the Linux
partition???
What properties does the swap partition have???
Since my installation was missing the swap file. (my mistake during
installation) I tried to add one but I didn't realize that it doesn't have
a mount point, so when I gave it one it caused the xwindow to boot at
startup. I tried using the Linuxconf to make changes, but nothing happened.
So I used vi to edit the etc/fstab file and deleted the offending line. So
now my xwindow will boot but I am still getting an error on boot up about
the swap file.
Previous messages
It will still boot, but the xwindow won't start. I tried linuxconf to
change the mount point for the swap file, but it didn't work. By the way
where should the mount point be for the swap file? I tried to create it at
mnt/swap.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sevatio Octavio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Swap file crash and burn
> Does it boot off the floppy?
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> On 2/5/01, 8:00:42 PM, "The Conways" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> regarding [newbie] Swap file crash and burn:
>
>
> > My Linux partition wasn't recognizing or using my swap partition. So I
> used
> > Diskdrake so that the partition was recognized as the swap partition. I
> > think maybe at this point I should have rebooted but instead I used
> Linxconf
> > to set the swap partition. At this point I did reboot, but now I can't
> get
> > to the xwindow to start because of some problem with the swap file.
> > What is the best thing to do at this point? Should delete my Linux
> > partition and reinstall or should or reinstall over the top of the
> existing
> > installation. Or should I use my startup disk and try to restore Lilo
to
> > it's previous state before I made the changes?
>
> > Jim
>
>
