The Conways wrote:
> 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
Jim....the swap file is formatted differently than the
filesystem partitions. It needs an /etc/fstab entry like the
below one:
/dev/hdaX swap swap defaults 0 0
where, of course, X is the correct number of the partition on
your system.
--
Alan
