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Unable to install the Linux OS!
Name: MOHAGANEE (by MOHAGIAN) Date: August 20, 2006 at 20:43:55 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: AMD ATHLON XP+1800 Product: AMD ATHLON
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Hi folks, I could not install the Linux OS p92. After I booted from the CD-ROM, one of the popped-up screen says to specify the root & swap device, but I failed to specify those device. To specify the root & swap device I was unable to input the / sign right behind the root & swap device. Can anybody let me know the possible solution? Thanks Masud
Name: Sanjaya Sugiarto (by Sanjaya) Date: August 20, 2006 at 22:15:49 Pacific
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Linux OS p92???? Have never heard about it before. Anyways: Linux need at least 2 partitions: the root (/) partition and /swap partition. The / is where you install the OS and store file, the /swap partition is just like temp file in windows (only temporary). There are some file system types for root partition: ext2, ext3, raiserfs, xfs, jfs, etc. Mostly ext3 would be the default one (used by Fedora, RedHat, Debian). Other distributors use other file system as default one (for example, suse uses raiserfs as default file system)
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Response Number 2
Name: tonysathre Date: August 22, 2006 at 13:45:03 Pacific
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"the /swap partition is just like temp file in windows (only temporary)."
Actually it's like the pagefile.sys in Windows which is used for Virtual RAM.
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