Re: [LUG] Swapfile (was gcc cannot make an executable)

[Alex Charrett <chas at termisoc.org>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Mark Harvey wrote:

> Obviously I need to set up the swapfile, but I cannot see how to do this. 
> I thought I had set up a swapfile when installing Linux (from the Linux
> Answers mag - which does say to do that) but it is not appearing above.

Try doing swapon and see if that helps, then use fdisk to see if youve got
a swap partition.  If youve not you'll need to repartition the disk so
youve got one (generally you want twice the amount of physical
memory).  If thats not easy to do without nuking everything then
re-install.

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