Re: How to setup SWAP partition for diskless client

[Karsten Brinkmann <kbr@orga.com>]

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> On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Karsten Brinkmann wrote:
> > > How do I set up the SWAP partition for a Linux diskless client using a Linux
> > > server's diskspace?  Thanks.
> 
> I'm very intrested in this particular subject too.
> 
> > Then, you can create a swapfile on the client's root partition with
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/SWAPFILE bs=1k count=20000 
> > (for a 20 MB swap file).
>  
> > Then you should do a mkswap /SWAPFILE <filesize> and put a swapon in the
> > system start scripts of your client. 
> 
> How it should be used from client side? As swap partition or
> as swap file? 
> 
> 	#> swapon ???  ???? ???
>
I put a "swapon /SWAPFILE" to my /sbin/init.d/boot script (Suse Linux 5.1)


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