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James Miller wrote:
>
> I decided first of all that I would need to add the swap 
> partition to /etc/fstab, so I did.  Was that necessary?  

No.  You can do it that way if you want, but it is simpler
just to give the direct swapon in /etc/rc

> Then, I had a look at /etc/rc.  The line for swapon was a 
> bit more complex than I expected: it looked some thing like
> [-e somethingorother] && swapon /c:/baslin/swap.img.  

It's conditional.  It only runs swapon if it finds swap.img
in /DOS/baslin (i.e. if the user has unzipped swap.zip).

> Then, I added a new line as follows:
> --------------------
> swapon /dev/hda3
> --------------------

That's all you need (no entry in fstab required).  The 
alternative method is to put the swap partition in /etc/fstab 
and then put the following in /etc/rc
---------
swapon -a
---------
But I think it is easier to forget about fstab and just give
the direct swapon.

Cheers,
Steven