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Posted: Nov. 09 2007,11:29 QUOTE
Ive been messing with DSL4.0 for a while now on an old laptop with 128Megs of ram. Its ok most of the time but a DOS swapp file helps. I notice on my other machines which sport multiple drives it detects my perminent linux swapp file on hdc every time on boot and uses it. However on the laptop I have 2 FAT32 drives. The bootable drive is hda1 and there is another smaller non bootable partition hda5 . If I get DSL4 to make a DOS swapp file it puts it on hda5 and runs with it ok. Next time I boot up DSL I have to delete the DOS swappfile and then make a new one yet again.

Why cant DSL see the existing DOS swapp file from last session and run with it? I cant find any boot cheat codes that would help either. If DSL can see and run with a Linux swapp file without being pushed then whats the problem with it grabbing and running with a DOS swapp?

Any ideas?
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Posted: Nov. 09 2007,13:17 QUOTE
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Any ideas?


Perhaps something like the folowing excerpt from my
/opt/bootlocal.sh

However, I am re-using the swapfile created by MS-Windows 98; still, maybe the startup code will work even though you create the swapfile another way.

Code Sample

mount -t msdos /dev/hdb5 /mnt/
mkswap -v1 /mnt/win386.swp
sync
swapon /mnt/win386.swp 2>/dev/null
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Posted: Nov. 09 2007,13:56 QUOTE
The DOS Swap File is a file and not a partition. That is why it is not automaticlly recognized. However, I have made a boot code to specify it's location or have it autoscaned. Just use the following:

dosswapfile=hda5

or

dosswapfile

The second option will cause DSL to autoscan for it.
Of course the boot option only works when you have used the mkdosswapfile as provided by DSL, i.e., file name is knoppix.swp

Edited by roberts on Nov. 09 2007,15:42
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Posted: Nov. 09 2007,15:37 QUOTE
Quote (sheldonisaac @ Nov. 09 2007,08:17)
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mount -t msdos /dev/hdb5 /mnt/
mkswap -v1 /mnt/win386.swp
sync
swapon /mnt/win386.swp 2>/dev/null

I'd just like to point out that using /mnt/ as your mountpoint probably isn't a good idea.
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Posted: Nov. 09 2007,19:09 QUOTE
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I'd just like to point out that using /mnt/ as your mountpoint probably isn't a good idea.


I'm sorry, I posted the one I used with BasicLinux.

Here's the one I use with DSL 3.45:

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#!/bin/bash
# put other system startup command here
mount /dev/hdb5
mkswap /mnt/hdb5/win386.swp
swapon /mnt/hdb5/win386.swp
sudo modprobe fuse
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