Just installed Knoppix

[hnugz]

Everything was pretty spiffy.  I just have a couple of quick questions.  On the partitioning, I set the swap partition to be 2gb.  I assume this is more than enough, does it make a difference?  What should it be set to ideally?  My comp has 512mb of memory.

Also, lilo was the only option during the install.  It looks really awful and I would like to use grub.  Does grub come with knoppix?  How would I remove lilo and install grub?  Thanks.

[HPC GUY]

your swap file is usually twice the size of your ram. 1 gb should be fine

[Enmity]

Everyone says that, why though?
Can't I have swap that's 50000 times my RAM (not practical but just exagerrating)

[suselinux]

would a bigger swap make for a faster system?

[slave]

A swap file is really only useful for systems with less than a gig of RAM.  If you have a gig or more, I wouldn't even bother with a swap file (or if you make one, make it the same size of your RAM)  On my system (128MB) I have a 256 MB swap file.

[insomnia]

quote:Originally posted by Enmity:
Can't I have swap thats 50000 times my RAM (not practical but just exagerrating)

Yes. But u will need a very big drive for that.
500MB is enough.

[insomnia]

To correct myself:
Their is a limit.
You can make 8 swap areas with 2 gig each.
(I don t think anyone ever needed 16 gig)

[Commander]

this might sound like a stupid question to some (maybe all) of u, but how to u install knoppix on ur harddrive?

or r u still booting off the cd?

[Faust]

http://www.freenet.org.nz/misc/knoppix-install.html
http://www.knoppix.net/s.php

knoppix will make use of any swap partitions it finds on your hard drive though, even if running from cd.

[ November 24, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[Commander]

nice link faust! thankx!