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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: hnugz on 20 November 2003, 21:21

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: hnugz on 20 November 2003, 21:21

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.

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: HPC GUY on 23 November 2003, 00:04

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

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: Enmity on 23 November 2003, 21:04

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

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: suselinux on 23 November 2003, 21:46

would a bigger swap make for a faster system?

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: slave on 23 November 2003, 10:13

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.

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: insomnia on 23 November 2003, 22:33

quote:

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

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

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: insomnia on 25 November 2003, 02:32

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)

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: Commander on 25 November 2003, 07:24

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?

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: Faust on 25 November 2003, 07:35

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

Title: Just installed Knoppix
Post by: Commander on 26 November 2003, 01:07

nice link faust! thankx!