Installation - Kanotix 2006-01-RC3 misreading swap partition space? linookser - 25.09.2006, 14:09 Uhr Titel: Kanotix 2006-01-RC3 misreading swap partition space?
Installing Kanotix 2006-01-RC3 onto a Dell Latitude cpi a366xt with a 6 GB hard drive, 256MB RAM. The installer gave an error saying that the swap partition didn't meet the minimum size of 128MB, but the partition (/dev/hda3) is 298MB and was already set up as linux swap prior to installing. The only way I could proceed with the installation was to use the "force" option, to ignore RAM and partition size requirements. Then, I got a good install, except that I can't print via Cups to an HP500C, an issue for a separate thread. It seems like Kanotix is misreading the size of the swap partition in this case. I installed on pre-existing linux partitions:
/dev/hda1 is Win2K (NTFS) squeezed into 1GB.
drb - 25.09.2006, 14:18 Uhr Titel:
I have got the same error message in the past (with 2005-04 and 2006-01-RC2). I think it's because you need to mount the swap partition prior to installation (I'm sure I've seen the opposite requirement somewhere else!) - and I think that got rid of the error message.
drb
linookser - 25.09.2006, 17:00 Uhr Titel:
How do "mount" a swap partition? Do you mean enable it with "swapon -a"?
drb - 25.09.2006, 17:39 Uhr Titel:
It should already be mounted during boot if it has been formatted as linux swap.
In the Kanotix installer there is a button to run gparted. This will show if the swap is mounted or not. If not, you can mount it from the gparted gui.
drb
linookser - 25.09.2006, 20:09 Uhr Titel:
Actually, that's another thing that I forgot about. gparted would not run from the installer. It just stalled forever at "scanning for partitions", I finally closed the installer and restarted it. I didn't try gparted independently of the installer, but I did run cfdisk. "cfdisk /dev/hda" didn't work, gave a "fatal error", but "cfdisk" by itself showed me the /hda partitions. So I was having some general trouble with partitions in the installer, unexpected, since I was switching from Knoppix 5.01 to Kanotix using the same partitions.