Puppy not detecting my swap partition? Solved
Posted: Tue 20 Apr 2010, 04:28
Hi I'm using a PII 300mhz with only 64 megs ram and 8.5 gig Hd till I get my system rebuilt.
I did a fresh dual boot setup win98se is on sda1 using 5 gigs.
then I created a swap partition of 128megs on sda2
then I created the Main linux partition as ext3 on sda3 around 3 gigs.
Went through full install setup then installed grub on mbr.
Setup works fine I can boot into puppy or windows fine but puppy is not detecting the swap partition when it boots up or even after its running and I'm not sure why.
Originally I created the swap partition using cfdisk in damn small linux I set it as ext2 type 82 in cfdisk.
Then I looked at my partitions from gparted in puppy and it was showing my swap as a vfat partition so I deleted the swap and created a new swap partition and selected format to linux swap in puppy's gparted.
then I did stuff like this:
swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2 <-- does activate there but I have to do it everytime I reboot.
Read something about enabling swap at boot time by editing
/etc/fstab but that was for a different linux.
Later I read /etc/fstab has no effect in puppy?
So I back to square 1.
?Is there a file I can edit for it to enable swap on boot?
Or is there a specific partition type I need for the swap?
I'm a little confused cause most swap files are type 82 ext2
and in puppys gparted you can select to format to an ext2 partition or format to Linux swap so i selected linux swap.
I'm using puppy 4.3.1
1 more question I cant seem to locate where puppy is saving my settings at on full install?
On my old system I had a frugal setup and it had a pup save file but I don't know where it's saving on full hd install?
thanks for any help It's not urgent just annoying.
I did a fresh dual boot setup win98se is on sda1 using 5 gigs.
then I created a swap partition of 128megs on sda2
then I created the Main linux partition as ext3 on sda3 around 3 gigs.
Went through full install setup then installed grub on mbr.
Setup works fine I can boot into puppy or windows fine but puppy is not detecting the swap partition when it boots up or even after its running and I'm not sure why.
Originally I created the swap partition using cfdisk in damn small linux I set it as ext2 type 82 in cfdisk.
Then I looked at my partitions from gparted in puppy and it was showing my swap as a vfat partition so I deleted the swap and created a new swap partition and selected format to linux swap in puppy's gparted.
then I did stuff like this:
swapoff -a
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2 <-- does activate there but I have to do it everytime I reboot.
Read something about enabling swap at boot time by editing
/etc/fstab but that was for a different linux.
Later I read /etc/fstab has no effect in puppy?
So I back to square 1.
?Is there a file I can edit for it to enable swap on boot?
Or is there a specific partition type I need for the swap?
I'm a little confused cause most swap files are type 82 ext2
and in puppys gparted you can select to format to an ext2 partition or format to Linux swap so i selected linux swap.
I'm using puppy 4.3.1
1 more question I cant seem to locate where puppy is saving my settings at on full install?
On my old system I had a frugal setup and it had a pup save file but I don't know where it's saving on full hd install?
thanks for any help It's not urgent just annoying.