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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:05:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Installing Linux (and bootblocks)
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907191703430.8919-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990720092427.J72885@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Greg Lehey wrote:

> That looks pretty much the same as mine, except for the order, which a
> trial installation of UnixWare screwed up.  Did you know that RedHat
> 5.2 claims you can't use more than 127 MB of swap?

Because you can't.  You can make a swap partition that's bigger, but it'll
truncate it when it activates it, so you're just wasting disk space.  If
you want more, make multiple partitions.  In the 2.2.x kernel you can have
larger swap spaces, but RH5.2 is 2.0.36-based.

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet




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