Originally posted by frankae

>>control panel -> advanced -> performance settings -> advanced -> virtual memory -> change

Actually, right after I wrote the reply, I got curious and started looking when I found it under control-panel -> System in my Win2K machine. The Advanced menu in the CP must be an XP 'enhancement'. I havent really worried about it, because I never felt the need. But yeah, I see what you mean.

>> What about the size of the swap?

About the size of your physical memory, but may be bigger if you dont have much RAM to start with / or if you run a million services and get hit hard. Here's my formula

RAM - SWAP
32 - 128
64 - 128
256 - 512
512 and above - 512

>>If I make the backup partition fat32, then I cannot use access control and any low-level user can touch my backups, right?

Not necessarily. Although the underlying partition is fat32, you can mount it with a restrictive umask. It is almost as flexible as mounting ext2. See 'mount options for fat' under the mount man page.

ok,

if no one has any further insight on a performance oriented swap partition layout for xp, I will just leave it as it is and re-install mandy.

Speaking of that, however, how can I keep mdk from overwriting the mbr this time around?

Even though I now know how to fix things later, I would like to know.

@nxny
that restrictive umask fat32 is going to provide access control lists for both OSs? Hard to believe.. but true? Any recommendations for a good backup utility to use for an xp/mdk system?

thanks.

Originally posted by frankae
>>Speaking of that, however, how can I keep mdk from overwriting the mbr this time around?

Tell the installer to install the boot loader in a partition boot sector if you can. Never used Mandy, dont know.

>>that restrictive umask fat32 is going to provide access control lists for both OSs? Hard to believe.. but true?

Did someone say both OSes? I didn't. Linux is what we discuss here, primarily and unless otherwise stated. If you want access control in XP, make it NTFS. That means you lose reliable write-ability from Linux. You win some, lose some. Or wait till the linux-ntfs developers come out with a reliable write, which I think they may in the near future. Try posting in a windows forum about access controlling fat32.

>>Any recommendations for a good backup utility to use for an xp/mdk system?

Dont know if people have started thinking the half-the-time-XP-rest-of-the-time-Mandy-backup-software way. (Looks like the interoparability market is gonna have to catch up.). No offense meant.

I reinstalled mandy using the expert install option. This way, I could choose where to install lilo. Now I have a different problem though. Mandy starts up in text mode and I cannot figure out how to switch to GUI mode. I did install all the graphical options (Gnome, KDE, other graphical desktops) and cannot figure out what is missing. Any suggestions?

login as root, edit your /etc/inittab to change the id:3:initdefault line to id:5:initdefault. Now /sbin/telinit 5 should take you to the graphic login. You can also reboot, but dont need to.

"switching to runlevel 5
starting iptables OK"

... then freezes. What's wrong?

Sounds like there is some service that's misconfigured/screwed up in runlevel 5. Chances are that you might not even need it for normal operations, in which case you can disable the offending service.

Use /sbin/chkconfig --list to list the currently enabled services for all the runlevels. You may use /sbin/chkconfig --level 5 <servicename> off once you know what to turn off.