Simon, I will definitely give this a shot tonight. Can you clarify two points though. One, you say to 'log in' to the second terminal. Since I haven't been able to run the system, I haven't set Id's or passwords....who do I log in as? Also, for the sake of clarity, could you give me the syntax for using the mount command? A thousand thanks.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Simon Holgate [SMTP:internet!george.seos.uvic.ca!simon] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 9:32 AM To: kolds; debian-user Subject: Re: Frustrated Kevin, I think that the problem you are experiencing maybe due to an error in the 'lomem' installation whch doesn't turn your swap space on. (You are using the lomem istall for 4MB aren't you?) I've posted this fix a few times (see below) and it seems to work ok. I'm going to try and trace the maintainer of lowmem so that it can be fixed more permanently. Good luck, Simon > > Subject: > Re: Lowmem Installation problem (fwd) > > Date: > Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:16:19 -0700 > From: > Simon Holgate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > "Jason J. Simas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-user > <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > References: > 1 > > Hi Jason, > > I had a similiar problem with the swap not activating. The > problem > seems to be that the swap partition is not written to /etc/fstab and I > managed to resolve it like this: > I did the complete install from disks, setting up up the partitions and > everything (though of course swap didn't activate) but at the point that > the option is given to create a boot floppy, I opted to reboot the > system from the hard-drive. However, what I did was to insert the lo-mem > disc again so that it booted from the disc. I then skipped the > re-partitioning, reinstalled linux on the minix partition and > progressed into the installation from the main disc set. At this point > (when you get the option for a colour or monochrome screen) you can > access another terminal by hitting alt-F2. Once logged in, mount your > previously installed ext2 partition (hda#, where # is the number of your > linux native partition) as 'junk' or whatever you want. cd to > 'junk/etc/' and edit the fstab file, adding: (headings are indicated by > <...>) > <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > /dev/hda# none swap sw 0 0 > (where # is the number of your swap partition) > Save the file, cd back to the root directory and umount 'junk'. Logout > of that terminal and alt-F1 returns you to the set-up session. Remove > the floppy from the disc-drive and re-boot from the hard-drive. > Hopefully, the swap will get recognized and get activated. > > Follow all that? > > Cheers, > > Simon -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Simon Holgate, Tel: (+1) (250) 721 6080 Centre for Earth and Ocean Research, (FAX) 721 6200 University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Victoria, B.C. CANADA. V8W 3P6 http://george.seos.uvic.ca/people/simon/simon.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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