The message 20051104145214.GB10676@areti.co.uk from Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk contains these words:
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:43:32PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
I've just had an attempt at installing Woody, but fell at, if not the first hurdle, the next one.
With 640 MB of memory I didn't think a swap partition was necessary so I skipped that. (Anyone disagree?)
Yes! :-)
The general advice seems to be to always have a swap partition about the same size as your memory unless you really have very little memory in which case swap should be larger.
Ah well, I've got 3ยท4 gig, I suppose I can spare a bit.
Formatting the drive was not what you would call intuitive, though. I 'deleted' [1] all the existing partitions on hda, couldn't print the 'help' menu [2], found that using the command letters didn't do anything except return me to the formatting page, and I could find no way of implementing the changes I had made.
This sounds like fdisk rather than formatting, Admittedly fdisk is a little obtuse at times.
Probably.