Re: Someone please help.

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:51:46PM +0000, Dan Walker wrote:
> ok, check this out. 
> 
> 
> When starting it tried to initailise the swap file on /dev/hda7. in the
> disk manager it also says it is there.

What is the disk manager?

> I dont think that it exists.

What makes you think that?

> how do i make a new one and make sure that it works?

Run "fdisk -l" (that's "ell", not one).  /dev/hda7 should show up like
this (mine is hda5)

/dev/hda5          1024      1056    265041   82  Linux swap

If that is ok, then follow my previous directions (below) changing my
example hda5 to hda7.

> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:39:32PM +0000, Dan Walker wrote:
> 
>     > how do i check my swap file
>     
>     File or partition?  Let's suppose it's /dev/hda5.  Then
>     
>      mkswap -c /dev/hda5
>     
>     "man mkswap" for more details
>     
>     > and assign it to a new place.
>     
>     I don't know what you mean by that.  To put it into effect after
>     mkswap,
>     
>      swapon /dev/hda5
>     
>     For the long term, you should have an entry in /etc/fstab like
>     
>     /dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>     
>     > My problem when booting is that it says that it is initialising the swap
>     > file then fails.
>     
>     If the above doesn't fix it, tell us what you are using for a swap
>     device or file, and the applicable entry in /etc/fstab.
>     
>     > I have 1 hard drive and swapped it from slave to master to get it to
>     > boot as rh8 set it all up then i noticed it would not boot. could this
>     > cause the swap file problem?
>     
>     Maybe.  Your /etc/fstab may show it as /dev/hdb5 when it is now
>     /dev/hda5.
>     
>     > Also Major problem, where does apache put the html files for my site
>     > please? i did a standard install and standard drives were set up.
>     
>     /var/www/html
>     
>     Cheers,
>     -- 
>     Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>     robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
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>     
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.cumbytel.com/~bobcatos/
Linux: because I want to get there today.  Without rebooting.