I have 512 MB of Ram, and 512 Mb of swap. Works well, and I use vmware to run Windows 98 se and some other linuxes I like to tweak... The problem with the swap is that you really don't need it at all most of the time (mine is always @ 1-2% of use), but when you need it, you really need it. Swap will also slow your system down, so if you see your system swapping you should consider more ram. The old/safe ;-) school will teach you that you need a swap doubling your RAM, and this is true is you run linux on an very old machine, with small memory. I myself am happy with the same amount. As for partitioning, if you want to repartition your entire hard drive you should first run fdisk /mbr to clean the Master Boot Record which was written by SuSE and Win98 has problem reading it (!!!pay atention fdisk /mbr has to be run after booting from the rescue disk and WILL ERASE YOUR ENTIRE PARTITION TABLE, so you will lose all partitions - make backup). Hope this helps. Regards, Sourian On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 09:34, cxiii - wrote:
When I installed SuSe I went with the default install. I have a 14 gig hard drive and 320mb of RAM. My problem is is that I left it default when installing it and it created a 640mb swap partition. In the manual it says that I wouldn?t really need that much of a swap drive considering they were thought of when memory was small. When I went to the Linux Documentation Project and downloaded one of thier documents, it talked about it as if necessary to have a large swap partition.
Which one is right? I?d like to cut it in half to save space. I tried to reinstall everything with Win98 starup disk and fdisk didn?t recognize the logical partition anyway and was fruitless. I keep a 3 gig partition for 98 only because there?s a few games I want to finish. Otherwise I?m sold with Linux and can get around pretty well. I have a k62 450. Get it, this is 2 questions.
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