Perfect New LINUX Install with Red Hat 8.0

[Hamburgerpimp]

Well, after many unsuccessfull installs of Linux, I finally installed Red Hat 8.0 perfectly. And on the same HD as I have my Win2K/WinXP dual boot. So, now I'm Tri-Booting. I installed Grub boot loader. I do have a question. Does is matter where you put the SWAP file for Linux on the HD? I know it should be 2X the amount of your memory. I only ask because I remember seeing the Swap not load on booting from a previous install. This is the order I partitioned it when installing:

/boot 100MB
swap 1GB
/ 20GB

 

[mjquilly]

the red hat installer conviently will put swap where it wants it if you don't set it up how it likes. so you should be set.

 

[Abzstrak]

doesn't matter where you put it, as long as the OS knows where it is (swapon /dev/hdXY or swapon /dev/sdXY)

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

That's what I thought. But, I remember seeing the SWAP not loading for some reason in a prior installation.