Re: Heres an interesting problem

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From: Robert Klemme
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 00:00

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Pugsly wrote:
> 
> Dr. Who (mind@ripco.com) wrote:
> : Pugsly (j4823363@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
> : : The problem is this -
> : : I try in install Redhat, both version 4.0 or 4.2.
> 
> : Make sure that your swap partition is in fact active and is being recognized.
> 
> Its a bit hard to do that when you cant login. Redhat doesnt recognise the
> password I typed at setup.
> 
> However I had an older slackware distribution on which showed the swap
> as being active but I cant say I ever saw it in use (ie 0 used).
> 
> : Check "free" and/or "vmstat" from the commandline and see if any of the
> : swap has been allocated.
> 
> How does one get to the command line with redhat when root is refused a login?

Did you start in single user mode?  That should leave you
more memory as most of the system services are not loaded
then.  Just give the kernel the parameter "single" on boot.

Bye

	robert

-- 

  Robert Klemme 
    computer science and philosophy 
      at University of Paderborn, Germany 
        mailto:kle@hni.uni-paderborn.de

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From: Robert Klemme <kle@hni.uni-paderborn.de>
Subject: Re: Heres an interesting problem
Date: 1997/10/27
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