On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Mike wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:33:44 -0400 (EDT)
> "Levi Bard" <levi@bard.sytes.net> wrote:
>
> > > Generally it's a partition under *ix. You can also use a file. There's
> > > even a way to use Windows' swap file if you double-boot.
> >
> > Yeah, I wish I'd known that years ago when I was dual-booting. I had very
> > limited space on my drive (actually a "restore" partition from the
> > original manufacturer install), and my swap partition took too many
> > precious MBs.
>
> There's a way to use windows swap as your linux swap??
This won't work if Windows uses a NTFS drive, as writing to that
filesystem is hazardous. Somewhere in /etc/(rc.d/), after you mount
partitions (make sure you mount the Windows drive), 'mkswap
/path/to/win386.swp ; swapon /path/to/win386.swp'. This should work with
Windows 3.1; Windows 2000 has a high probability of using NTFS, in which
case that's out.
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