dont realy want to do that , theres too much important stuff on the
drive
i have plans to upgrade it to a bigger drive and dual boot ,but will
be a couple of months before that happens , so does not solve the
imidiate problem
but could be possible to mount a usb hard drive as a knoppix swap
and do it using that
, job for monday if the adaptor arrives
Dave
--- In Chris Knadle <>
wrote:
>
> Dave --
>
> Maybe you can try to shrink the NFTS partition in order to make
some room
> to create a swap partition. Knoppix 4.02 has 'ntfsresize' that
can do this:
> http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html
>
> From there, just add a swap partition with 'fdisk' and format
it with
> 'mkswap'. Knoppix should find the swap partition automatically on
reboot, or
> use 'swapon'.
>
> - Chris
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
>
>
> On Saturday 03 December 2005 02:50 am,
pickanameanditstakensoihavethis wrote:
> > hi all
> > first question is i have a 256mb CF card , its now formated as
ext2
> > and mounts ok but have a problem , using a laptop with knoppix
and the
> > debian tar file in a windows xp ntfs partition i cannot extract
it to the CF
> > this is because the laptop only has 256mb ram , and manages to
get
> > about 75% through extracting it before it crashes because its
out of
> > ram ,
>
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