USB booting :: Got dsl to work but...



I have the laptop working decent, but the thing only has 32mb ram.  Is there a way I can create a swap partition on the usb key so that I can open firefox?
Flash-based devices (aka, USB flash drives) have a limited number of reads/writes per sector before they fail.  Hard drives do not suffer from this.  You would be better of making a swapfile on the hard disk, so that you do not damage the USB drive.
Good point, only problem is the hard drive is riddleled with bad sectors, seems to be dieing, how would I go about TRYING to make a swapfile on the HD.
There is a "Setup DOS swapfile" command.  I don't know what it does.... But a swapfile is a swapfile....
Try it?
(I'd try it for you, but I care about my hard drive :p )
I wouldn't say a swapfile is a swapfile...and a swapfile is also not a swap partition.  You'd get much better results creating a small linux swap partition on a harddrive rather than using a swapfile on a fat partition.
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