Thread: Has anyone sucessfuly got bootmenu to work with a WIMAX?
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tomstratton is offline tomstratton
2009-01-13 , 14:51
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Originally Posted by tz1 View Post
You have to create an entry in /etc/fstab for swap if you don't use a .swap file on the internal card. (Note that if you do, you can resize it much larger just by using dd to create a big file and mkswap .swap).

For /etc/fstab, I have the line:

/dev/mmcblk0p3 none swap swap priority=-1 0 0

and it "just works".

And a thankyou to Fanoush for adding the date/changelog entry to the webpage.
I'm not sure that I wrap my head around this at all - I have been usine console-tools to do the swap partitioning and handling the code. If you could be a little more step-by-step I'd really appreciate it...

What I have is a small (about 256 MB) Partition with Linux Swap / Solaris as the partition type (I'm not sure if it is supposed to be formatted" and if it is, what format to use, and then, what is the appropriate mkfs command to use.

AFter all that I have NO IDEA how to go about setting up a ".swap" file or how to decipher the line
"/dev/mmcblk0p3 none swap swap priority=-1 0 0"

I sure wish that there had been space in this device for the man files! Alternately, wish that the man files were online at maemo.org

Thanks

Tom