Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-21 Thread Vineet Kumar
* D-Man ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010709 15:42]: > I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap. Perhaps > /etc/inittab tells? init doesn't swap anything; it's the kernel. You can activate a swap partition by doing something like # swapon /dev/hdb2 To make the change permanent, add a line t

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Christoph Schaefer
Salut, On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > I don't know how to tell init where to find the swap. Perhaps > > /etc/inittab tells? > > I was thinking of going back into the installation program and telling it > I wanted to use this partition as a swap space after a

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 02:59:59PM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: | > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | > | The most obvious problem with this is | > | | > | 1) a) My user id on SuSE is 500. My user id on Debian is 1000. Clearly I | > |

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, D-Man wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > | The most obvious problem with this is > | > | 1) a) My user id on SuSE is 500. My user id on Debian is 1000. Clearly I > | will need to reconcile these. I think I would prefer to change my De

Re: sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread D-Man
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: | Dear People, | | I'm planning to buy a new computer and install Debian on it. I haven't got | around to the buying yet, and I had a spare 2 Gig on one of the drives of | my current computer, so I decided to install Debian on it. The i

sharing /home and swap space between two Linux systems

2001-07-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, I'm planning to buy a new computer and install Debian on it. I haven't got around to the buying yet, and I had a spare 2 Gig on one of the drives of my current computer, so I decided to install Debian on it. The install went very smoothly, though it was facilitated by the fact that I