problem with installing slackware
 

im trying to install slackware, i have 2 hard-disks , one with 40GB and another with 8GB, i want to make the 8GB hard-disk as a swap space..
i reboot the machine with the slackware bootable-CD, and than made 1 parttion (on the 40GB h.d) and made him active, than I made 1 parttion on the 8GB h.d and change it to "linux swap" parttion, than I format the 40GB h.d (mke2fs /dev/hda1), than : mkswap /dev/hdb1, than: swapon /dev/hdb1 and than i get the error msg that said:" invalid argument" so i tried: "umount /dev/hdb1" and than : swapon /dev/hdb1 and now its work.. than i made: "mkdir /mnt/hda1, than: "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1"
and than :" startx" and i installed with the wizard..
the installtion proceess was finished and than i reboot and get error and the machine cant boot from the h.d..
maybe some1 know what is the problem or can tell me how can i do this installion right ?
thanks !

hi,
boot again using the 1st cd of slackware and post the out put of

#fdisk -l

#cat /etc/lilo.conf

regards

A note, you should only use a max 512Mb swap. Even that is probably too big for general use but it's a nice size. 8Gb is quite a bit large for a swap partition. I think kernel too has it limited on 2Gb. Not 100% sure about that, though.

I too back your advice. Actually i thought he would be using a part of that 8 Gb as swap.
i've 256mb of ram and keep only 300 mb swap. I hardly see my system using the swap portion much.

regards