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ok, let's state a couple of things.
It's good you want to re-give birth to an old laptop. recycling old hardware is funny and ecofriendly. It is also true that some people managed to run dsl on such old hardware pretty well.
however. ..miracles just don't happen.
As far as I know you really have to set up a swap partition on your hard drive if you want xwindows to start.
morevoer, there are also some hints on how to parttionate the disk (i.e. I've heard that swap partition should be the first on old hardware, beacuse it'sread and written very often by the machine and therefore need to be put in the fastest accessible area of the disk).
I also happen to read that you *may* use a swap partion that is a file on a fat32(windows) partion. that would mean not deleting your windows OS.
unfortunately I can't give you any reference right here and now. maybe you should google around a bit and check i.e. knoppix website.

good luck

Yeah,

The concept is called a "swapfile".

You can create a swapfile inside your normal DOS/Win3.1/Win95/Win98 hard drive partition and make DSL use it instead of a dedicated swap partition.

This file just appears like a normal file inside your Windows system. For example, if you make a 32MB swapfile and named it "swapfile.swp", this file would work with DSL and just appear as a normal 32MB file inside Windows.

Search the forums for keyword "swapfile" or "swap AND file" and search ALL FORUMS and FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER.

Also, there should be some help out there on Google, too.

If you just want to get into the system in text mode, I would expect that something like:

dsl failsafe vga=normal 2

would get you to a command prompt.

ok, thanks. I was out of town for a couple of days, and it is always nice to see more replies!

Thanks, guys!

BTW: I use Fedora Core 2 at home, and have been using Linux for about a year.

I just discovered a file on my HD called WIN386.SWP. It is 22,528KB in size. So, I told Windows that I would manage my own virtual memory settings, and told it that I wanted it to have a minimum size of 64 MB. If i am correct, this will make the file 64 MB in size.

So, then, how do I tell DSL to use this file?

looks like I was right, it increased the size. The new size is 65, 536 KB.

Will DSL make use of a Windows SWP file?

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