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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

Russ:

>From the command line, type "pico /etc/fstab."  That will open and editor
that shows you the contents of your /etc/fstab file.  If you don't have
and entry like

------------------------------------------
/dev/hdxx swap      swap      defaults       0 0
------------------------------------------

then add one.  In the entry the first "x" in "/dev/hdxx" gets replaced by
the letter of the drive the swap partition is on ("a" for the first drive,
"b" for the second and so forth).  The second "x" gets replaced by the
number of the partition on that drive that the swap partition is on (1-3
for primary partitions, 5 and up for logical partitions).  Again, I'm
assuming you have an IDE hard drive, not a scsi.  If you have scsi, the
same comments apply, but the "h" in "hdxx" gets replaced by an "s"
(/dev/sdxx).  Once you have such an entry, the swap partition (if it's
been formatted with mke2fs) should initialize and be available on bootup.

James

On Sat, 24 May 2003, russ loroville wrote:

> Thanks James,
>    You probably understand this better than me. Most of what I have
> learned is from Steven. If you go to "google" search engine and type
> "ichi bascilinux" also "qwms basiclinux" you will find lists of where
> Steven has answered questions on Bascilinux. I found a lot on Survivor PC.
> I'm a slow learner when it comes to linux.
>
> On Sat, 24 May 2003, James Miller wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 24 May 2003, russ loroville wrote:
> >
> > > James,
> > >   You are probably right. You may need it in the bootup format for it to
> > > work, so an alias may not work.
> > >
> > Sample /etc/fstab file that may help you better understand what I'm
> > getting at (if you are even confused about it):
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > /dev/hda2 swap      swap      defaults       0 0
> > /dev/sda1 swap      swap      defaults       0 0
> >
> > /dev/hda3 /         reiserfs  defaults       1 1
> > /dev/hda1 /boot     ext2      defaults       1 1
> > /dev/hda5 /home     reiserfs  defaults       1 1
> > /dev/hda6 /opt      reiserfs  defaults       1 1
> > /dev/hda7 /usr      reiserfs  defaults       1 1
> > /dev/hda8 /mnt/save reiserfs  defaults       1 1
> >
> > /dev/scd1 /mnt/graveur       auto      noauto,user,ro 1 1
> > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom         auto      noauto,user,ro 1 1
> > /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy        auto      noauto,user    0 0
> >
> > none      /dev/pts           devpts    gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > none      /proc              proc      defaults       0 0
> > none      /proc/bus/usb      usbdevfs  defaults       0 0
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Note: I just found this on the web.  It has no relation to my, or likely
> > anyone else's, BL system (usb and reiserfs are pretty much out of the
> > question for BL2).  BL fstab files will typically be far less
> > complex, with maybe only 3 or 4 entries.  Relevant entries from this
> > sample for you will be the "swap" entries - most likely the /dev/hda2
> > one, unless you have a scsi hard drive.  Hope this helps further.
> >
> > James
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