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When booting "Cannot load zdrv_sfs as no swap partition" is displayed and the sequence then follows on to display Puppy in all its glory.

What confuses me is the need for a swap partition as I was informed that I had an abundance of RAM. As I type this free memory is currently showing as 541.

What is the effect of not having a swap partition ? In another post it was suggested that I would need one to burn .sfs files to an ISO in order to combine the 2.15 Final and .sfs files into a multi-session DVD.

Your guidance in this will be most appreciated

Ian

Scoticus, I think that is an unfortunately worded advisory, not an error, message. If Puppy goes ahead and boots and works ok, then why worry?

Many thanks Flash.

What was worrying me was there are times when in attempting to pull together .sfs and pup files that I am told that there is insufficient memory.

Reading various posts there are some which seem to advocate swaps. It is very much like our diet over here - chips with everything. I am still having dificulty in putting everything together due to the insufficient memory.

Will keep struggling on and see how things go.

Ian

If you have a hard drive in the computer, it won't hurt to create a smallish swap partition on it. Say, 500 MB. Even if you boot with the pfix=ram option, Puppy still mounts a swap memory if it finds one, even if it never uses it. Maybe that will make it happy.