Ciao Michael, nel tuo messaggio dicevi: > How crucial is a swap partition? The only think I know of it being > used for is virtual RAM memory, am I wrong? Having 896 MB of RAM I > didn't think that I would need one,
You will probably never need one single byte of that swap, but it is required by some applications (apache, if I am not wrong, among others). So don't follow the old rule swap = 2*Ram size, and stick with those 512MB. > startx doesn't connect, but that doesn't surprise me after an earlier > post I read about it, and I have the 4.3.0 sources downloaded, so I may > try and compile that instead of using the 4.1 that debian installs. I will not help you at all. Why not upgrading to Sarge? You will probably solve a lot of problems. Woody is obsolete (yes it's stable ;)). > How different is the debian kernel than a regular kernel? for instance > if I just wanted to download a newer kernel's source code, how much > hacking would I have to do to get it compiled? Debianized sources include some specific patches, but it is overall the same. Compiling it is just a matter of 1 command. Read this: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html -- On Oct 5 1991, 8.53 AM; Linus Benedict Torvalds said: >I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be >out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got >minix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
