Swap & None, Breezy and Dapper with CF Card.

[Derek Broughton]

marco wrote:

> I have a PC with one MB Via Epia MII 12000 and one Samsung card IDE
> adapter with booting for Compact Flash, plus one 4gb CF card.
> Until version 5,04 of Ubuntu all run OK, now Breezy and Dapper refuses
> to create the swap partition; he say that cannot mount on "none".
> I am profane of linux, even if I use it by various years.

Your use of "profane" is a little unusual (though probably strictly right
according to a dictionary)  - we usually use it to mean the use of abusive
language :-)  Sometimes it just means "not sacred".

> There is a way in order to make to reason them?

It's probably just a syntax problem.  Your /etc/fstab file should contain a
line like this, for swap:
  /dev/sda3  none  swap    sw  0   0
The first column is the device name of the partition in /dev - yours is not
likely to be /dev/sda3.  The second is usually "none" but could be anything
because it's ignored.  The third and fourth indicate "swap" and the last
two are, I believe, ignored for swap partitions.

> Excuse me for bad language and

See "profane".  "bad language" is idomatic for "profanity".  We'd usually
say "Excuse me for my poor English".  Your English is imperfect, but
adequate for the job!
-- 
derek