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Help making swap partition
Name: Illegal Date: April 22, 2002 at 20:32:26 Pacific
Comment:
Trying to install RedHat 7.0. I figured out how to make all other partitions since it defaults to Linux native.....but am unable to select Linux swap. I see the choices to the right (Swap, native, Raid etc) but cant toggle over to linux swap. Is there another/easier way?
Name: Solo Date: April 23, 2002 at 03:54:55 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
try "cfdisk /dev/hda" to change the partion options on the master IDE drive on the first IDE-Controller. Be carefull since you can destroy all you data if you delete existing partitions. If cfdisk is not found install the cfdisk package from you distribution. You might aswell use PartitionMagic6 (DOS) They say it can create usfull swap partitions for linux. Good luck, Solo
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Response Number 2
Name: Kloss Korban Date: April 23, 2002 at 11:47:27 Pacific
Reply:
Cfdisk is deffinetly the way to go! If you don't have Cfidisk on the redhat disk, then 3 steps
1. E-mail RedHat to tell them to get there head out of there butt
2. download a rescue or boot disk that has it on it. most do. I do know for sure that the slackware boot and root install disks have cfdisk.
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