Hi -- You asked: > I have got 16MB of RAM on my machine. Could someone tell me if it would > still be necessary for me to create a Linux swap partition. If you will be using memory-hungry applications (like X or httpd), then you'll definitely need some swap space. A few tens of MBytes would be a safe bet.
> Also, would > Linux fdisk wipe out my DOS partition even if I only want to create one > Linux partition w/ Linux fdisk and not mess up w/ DOS partition using > Linux fdisk. Thanks. I'm not quite sure what you mean here. If your disk already has 1 partition on it that uses the entire disk, then the only way to wedge a Linux partition onto it is to use a utility like FIPS (in the tools directory at any Debian mirror) to make your DOS parition smaller. Then you can repartition whatever is left over into 3 primary partitions (or more if you want to use extended and logical partitons). One of those partitions could be your swap space. Good luck, Susan Kleinmann
