On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Jasper Wallace wrote:

> Bad news I'm afraid... you have to compile a kernel to add a second swap
> space partition...

Not entirely true

You can have multiple swap= options in the bootloader and a kernel
with generic swap will pick them up.

i.e. add the option swap=/dev/wd1b to the extra options field in the 
bootloader. Then the swap specified in the swap field will be found first 
and then the second swap device will be added. You can do this for up to 
3 swap partitions.

Have not tried this for a long time so I don't know how well multi swap 
partitions will work ;-)

Cheers,
				Mark

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