Re: Please help

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 07:27:55AM -0700, Rudhra Param wrote:
> 
>   I have joined this mailing list just a couple of
> days before. I want to install Linux in my machine. I
> have a 8Gb harddisk of which 6Gb is filled with
> windows partitions. When i wanted to install Linux in
> the last 2Gb, somebody said that linux doesn't work
> well if it is installed after 1024 cylinders. my
> harddisk contains 1048 cylinders. 

Make sure that Linux root resides between 0-1024 cylinders.
Use the remaining 24 cylinders for swap space maybe.

> 
> how do you create a linux swap partition. do you
> create a primary partition and convert it into swap
> partition. if so, will this be considered as a primary
> partition even after converting it into swap
> partition.

Create a primary partition and change its type to "Linux swap".
Primary and swap are not mutually exclusive. You can have a
partition that is both.

	-Arun

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