On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:32:56 -0500, W. Guy Thomas wrote > On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 21:28, Gideon N. Guillen wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:02:42 -0500, W. Guy Thomas <mrguytx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I have researched this but it seems no one wants to do this. > > > Is it a bad idea? > > > I think it would be better than my little hard drive churning on this > > > old laptop. > > > A full 128MB stick. > > > Fedora sees the stick, I create a partition in fdisk of type 82. > > > I use > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 bs=1024 count=131000 > > > > Well, have you used this usb stick for other stuff? If the answer is > > no, well, it's possible that you have a memory stick that uses the > > entire block dvice, not partitions, like /dev/sda instead of > > /dev/sda1. > > > > Anyway, as the other poster said, this is not recommended. Even if > > your hard disk will be free, this will slow down you computer even > > more as your system will be put to a state where the kernel has to > > finish writing to virtual memory before handing over cpu/resources > > again to processes. > > I haven't used it for anything except to format it as vfat and write > to it to make sure it works. > > Surely we can at least give it a try? > I have tried all the procedures I can find. > If anyone could pick up on where I left off and spot what I'm missing > I'd be most grateful. > I have done my research and am not asking for my hand to be held, > just some pointers as to what I might have missed please? > > thanks. > > G I would recommend to upgrade your RAM. That should stop most of the thrashing of your notebooks HDD. Or upgrading the HDD to a larger and faster one perhaps (That's if there is one available for your system). Your current approch is really pointless. After all I'm only trying to help you :-) Wolf -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)
