Swap & None, Breezy and Dapper with CF Card.

[marco]

Derek Broughton ha scritto:

>marco wrote:
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>>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.
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>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".
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>>There is a way in order to make to reason them?
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>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.
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>>Excuse me for bad language and
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>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!
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Thanks and good job!
marco