[Linux-India] Re: NO SWAP! NO RAM!

[Mrs N P Salaria <nps@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to Sachin:
> 
> Hi,
> I had recently installed RHL6.0 (chip CD). I had made the partition 1GB
> linux native and 40MB linux swap. I have 128 MB of RAM.
> 
> 1) Running free showed only 14MB of RAM!.
> I found in docs that inorder to use more than 64MB for RAM one has
> to  append lilo.conf with mem="128MB". But as I boot through floppy I
> didnt find the lilo.conf file. What should I do?
> 
> 2) Running free I found that there was no swap space!.
>           total  used  free
> swap  0      0        0
> 
> There was no use trying "swapon -av" as the etc/fstab file contained
> no swap partition. (I had earlier made 40MB swap partition).
> Why is it so?
Please add the swap partition to the /etc/fstab file , then run the command swapon 
on that partition , thne free will show you the swap.
It depends on the installation procedure .. I do not know how you have installed
did you use fdisk to create the partitions , did the system prompt for swap 
partition for mkswap etc...
anyway it doesnt matter just add the swap partition to /etc/fstab and it will
start working 
nps 
> 
> 3) Where are the docs about installation/swap partitioning kept?
> 
> - Sachin
> 
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