Shawn Lamson wrote:
thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that
trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it
anyway. I have several friends who are eager to try Linux until the
word "partitition" comes up. There is even one guy at work who is
look
Read it again. Swap FILE on a MS-DOS partition. No partitioning
involved.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:52:04PM -0700, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that
> trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it
> anyway. I have s
thanks for the reply - didnt mean for you to have to go to all of that
trouble :) I will definitely look at the website before I try it
anyway. I have several friends who are eager to try Linux until the
word "partitition" comes up. There is even one guy at work who is
looking into some "swappab
Shawn Lamson wrote:
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But in the case of low RAM, if a Linux partition is not available,
Knoppix uses the Windows partition and creates a swap file (not a
swap
partition).
Kent
Does it use "freespace" on the drive, or will i
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]:
> >
> >>How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as
> swap
> >>without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk?
> >
> >
> > It would only m
Bob Proulx wrote:
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]:
How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap
without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk?
It would only mount a swap partition if the type marked was linux
swap previously. O
Tom Cook wrote:
On 0, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or
so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap
space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in,
you can remount
Tom Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-10-24 10:49:10 +0930]:
> How can a swap partition be read-only? How can a disk be used as swap
> without overwriting (probably FAT32) partitions on the disk?
It would only mount a swap partition if the type marked was linux
swap previously. Otherwise it won't u
On 0, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Unless the machine is low on RAM (32MB for non-GUI mode I believe; 96 or
> so for KDE mode), forcing Knoppix to use the hard drive for swap
> space, the hard drives are mounted read-only in my experience. Once in,
> you can remount them rw.
Levi Waldron wrote:
So, preinstall PCs for people, use Knoppix, or create Live CDs with BootCD
(such as http://asgardsrealm.net/linux/livec1vn)
How safe do you think Knoppix is? I would make a pretty bad impression of
Linux to my friends if I gave them the demo CD to show them its virtues and
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