[TriLUG] Wine stuff

[Roy Vestal]

Actually, I was referring to the Wine "Windows Swapfile", not the Linux swap
file, but I'll definitely store this away as a "mini-howto". Thanks!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Tate" <dragonstrider at gmail.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Wine stuff


> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:54:07 -0400, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> > No, this isn't about the liquid but the environment.  I'm trying to run
> > a couple of Windows based games that are pretty hardcore 3D. I have one
> > of mine working now but I still have these 2 to go to make my game
> > machine to NEVER have Windows again. :)
> >
> > Anyway, both have the same problem, they say the swap file is not big
> > enough. Does anyone know how to get the swap file bigger? I can't find
> > it.
> >
>
> Boot off knoppix/Tom's Root boot/partition magic, resize the
> partition, then run mkswap on it.  If you have space that you'd like
> to add to the swap space, run mkswap, add it to /dev/fstab, and run
> swapon -a or some variation.  You can run swapoff commands to take a
> swap file out of the rotation to do this all "online"
>
>
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