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Old 04-03-2005, 06:36 PM   #1
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How to make a swap partition with mac-fdisk?


Well, thats it, I don't know the commands to make a swap partiotion using mac-fdisk.

I'm installing Debian on PPC, (iMac 233)
 
Old 04-03-2005, 06:58 PM   #2
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To make a swap partition use "c" (for create) and make sure you name the patition swap. It MUST be named swap to work. The Gentoo PPC has a table on it with the required partition scheme for "Old World" and "New World" in order to get the boot loader to work.
 
  


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