Formatting Swap Space 1

[trumanzero]

I already have Mandrake installed on my comp, and am in the process of installing Red Hat 9. Is it safe for me to format and replace the existing swap space on my computer, or should I leave the original and create a new one?

 

[franklin97355]

If you are doing a complete install I would wipe it all and let redhat set it up for you.

 

[franklin97355]

Also, do you know redhat 9 is no longer supported by redhat and there will not be any upgrades? You might want to consider Fedora if you liked redhat.

 

[trumanzero]

Ok, just making sure that Linux won't get mad if I wipe and replace the swap space.
Yeah, I realize that Red Hat is no longer supported. And I've already got Fedora and will be installing it next. I'm putting 5 or 6 versions of Linux on my comp. Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, Gentoo, Knoppix, and also FreeBSD. Well, as many of those that will fit on a 40 gig HDD. Might not be able to fit them all on there. So if anybody has a working HDD that they would like to donate towards my Linux Box Charity....

 

[trumanzero]

Perhaps I should've taken your advice to go ahead skip Red Hat...it froze about halfway through installation and corrupted my existing Linus partition.... :-(