HD Install :: DH install tricks



hi!

i'm new here and have just tried DSL, and i'm very impressed! :)
i'm using a cd to run it on my old pentium 200mhz, but i have also partitioned my hard drive to make a HD-install. one partion has 2GB and is ext3 formated, and i kept 128mb for swap.

after doing a HD-install will DSL use the swap space and act as a regular linux distro, in which i will be able to customize the scripts and install packages?

also, i'm planning on turning that old computer into o home file-server, so will dsl once installed on the hard-drive be able to to that?

thanks in advance!  :D
you will need to activate your swap partition with mkswap /dev/whatever
swapon /dev/whatever

where whatever is the swap partition ie hda1 etc
I always do HD installs and I have never had to do swapon (may have to with frugal but not with a regulat HD install).

I have two windows machines (wifes and kids) and I transfer files using my DSL machine but I haven't done a file server.  I have played around with Xterminal a little and got that working some.  Setting up a file server with DSL should be pretty simple.  What type of setup are you thinking about?  What types of machines will you be serving?
Correction, the reason I never had to worry about setting up a swap is because I have had linux installed on my laptop (in some version or another) for quite some time.  I have had a swap partition for (it seems like) every so I never had to worry about it.  I just wiped out everything and made some changes recently so I had to set up swap again.  With a regular HD install I created the swap partition and used sudo mkswap then sudo swapon (to get it to work before a reboot) to start things off then on reboots everything worked the way it should.

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