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.
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.