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2002-04-16 Thread eric
On 16 April, 2002 05:58, Anthony Lau wrote: > > If the BugTraq info is correct, this may only affect 2.4.X kernels. > > It's always refreshing to see old Macs still up and running, even > without their "native" OS. > in fact, this old powermac runs *better* (better as in faster, more stable, apps

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-16 Thread Clive Menzies
At 10:58 pm -0700 15/4/02, Anthony Lau wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: At 8:16 pm -0700 14/4/02, Anthony Lau wrote: >I think I have found the answer. It seems my setup with 2 swap >partitions on separate IDE drives made something very unstab

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-16 Thread Anthony Lau
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > At 8:16 pm -0700 14/4/02, Anthony Lau wrote: > >I think I have found the answer. It seems my setup with 2 swap > >partitions on separate IDE drives made something very unstable. It > >doesn't make sense that

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-15 Thread Clive Menzies
swer. It seems my setup with 2 swap partitions on separate IDE drives made something very unstable. It doesn't make sense that 2 swaps would lock up the ADB. But, after rebooting with the new swap partion only, the ADB was able to stay up even under intense CPU load and paging. Does anyone else

Re: Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-14 Thread Chris Tillman
began. Installed extra > RAM and added a second swap partition. > > I think I have found the answer. It seems my setup with 2 swap > partitions on separate IDE drives made something very unstable. It > doesn't make sense that 2 swaps would lock up the ADB. But, after > rebooting

Multiple Swap Partitions? Re: Sudden loss of keyboard and mouse

2002-04-14 Thread Anthony Lau
can be related > to it? gpm was a likely candidate, but that didn't fix it. Restarting X didn't bring back the ADB either. I only changed 2 thing when this behaviour began. Installed extra RAM and added a second swap partition. I think I have found the answer. It seems my setup with

Re: swap partitions

2000-02-10 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> I now have the base system booting but the base installer appears to have not > changed the base /etc/fstab to include my swap partitions. I activated them > in the installer though. Could some body please send me a example line for > a swap partition as i can not remember for th

swap partitions

2000-02-09 Thread Logan Hall
Hi- I now have the base system booting but the base installer appears to have not changed the base /etc/fstab to include my swap partitions. I activated them in the installer though. Could some body please send me a example line for a swap partition as i can not remember for the life of me what