I've no idea I'm afraid! Have you tried just creating the swap partition with fdisk and activating it in the normal way (like we had to in the days before fancy installers)? Alternatively use the Expert Partitioning tool. If you don't know exactly what you're doing with these powerful tools then do test them on machines that are currently test/play machines and *not* a production machine. If it's going to be a powerful server then it might be worth talking to the people who control your budget about stretching to some more RAM (we recently bought 1GB RAM for £100). In my experience if your server does a lot it needs a lot of RAM is one of the unavoidable facts of life. The other road leads to bad performance and people grumbling like, "...well I think things were better before 'they' switched to this 'Linux' thing...", etc. --SNIP--
Thanks again. I think your assessment is right on. Yes, I could still ping
it,
but I couldn't get logged on because everything was paged out except the benckmark program, so it wasn't really "kernel hung", just so sluggish I couldn't tell the difference. OK, so far, so good. How do I get more than 1 GB of swap space (or am I stuck there) ? Thanks again.