Re: Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-04 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: > I have Pentium II, 512 Mb RAM, Linux debian 2.0, > kernel 2.0.36 > I need quite big swap, so I created 7 swap partitions > hda3,hda5,...,hda10, as seen below: [...] > When the system is loading it prints that the 7 (seven) > sawp partitions are activating, a

Re: Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-03 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Maybe you can find this useful: Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > Linux can per default only handle swap-partitions <= 128 MB > The latest 2.1 kernels raise this to just shy of 2GB :-) > > You will need a new version of util-linux which I am about to do an NMU of - > util-linux-2.9e-0.1 will be the name

Linux cannot use swap bigger then 460Mb ?

1998-12-03 Thread Jan Krupa
I have Pentium II, 512 Mb RAM, Linux debian 2.0, kernel 2.0.36 I need quite big swap, so I created 7 swap partitions hda3,hda5,...,hda10, as seen below: /dev/hda1 *11 420 3175168+ 7 OS/2 HPFS /dev/hda2 421 421 438 1360806 DOS 16-bit >=32M /dev/h