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bashhelp
11-23-2005, 12:00 PM
I am trying to partition my HDD in QTParted, and it doesn't let me reformat or partition my swap. How do I unmount the swap?

Or perhaps I can boot without swap drive mounted. If so, how?

Harry Kuhman
11-23-2005, 01:03 PM
look at the list of cheat codes

rwcitek
12-06-2005, 08:15 AM
I am trying to partition my HDD in QTParted, and it doesn't let me reformat or partition my swap. How do I unmount the swap? Or perhaps I can boot without swap drive mounted. If so, how?
If you've already booted, open a terminal window and type "sudo swapoff -a"

If you haven't yet booted, use the "noswap" cheatcode at boot time.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

pheadxdll
12-10-2005, 12:40 PM
Another possibity is to boot to a windows 98 cd and start the computer with CD support. You can run fdisk from command prompt.