maru dubshinki wrote:
>
>> After a F&R [long story...], I am trying to install Fedora Core 4
>> in my home computer. So far, no problem that I could not solve
>> or see a chance to solve, except this:
>>
>>   mkswap file1
>>
>> returns error
>>
>>   file1: Permission denied
>>
>> Does anyone know what the hell is going on? mkswap worked with
>> every other distro I tried.
> 
> Reading the mkswap man page- why are you trying to use it on a file?
>
Because I can :-)

> Shouldn't it be used on a partition? 
>
Both uses are possible. But _after_ I have installed the
system, there's no safe way to create a partition.

> And if you are using it on a
> partition, are you running as root? And if so, is your partition set
> to be a swap partition?
> 
There should be no problem with mkswap, because I had done that before,
with Fedora Core 2 and some of those one-CD-distros.

> If all that doesn't work, just use Debian or Ubuntu. :)
> 
:-)

I tried Kubuntu, but I hated it. How can a linux distro come
_without_ gcc and make?

Alberto Monteiro

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