[ILUG] Re: 3 newbie type questions

From: John P. Looney (valen at domain redbrick.dcu.ie)
Date: Wed 26 May 1999 - 11:25:13 IST


On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 08:05:42PM +0100, Joe Doyle & Sandra O'Keeffe mentioned:
> I installed RH5.2 with a swapfile of 500MB but in checking my system it
> recognises only 133MB. Is there a limit on the swapfile or addressing limit
> that I need to check ?

 That version of RedHat installed 2.0.x - which only allowed
swapfiles/partitions of 128MB. 2.2.x allows much bigger ones.

> Secondly, I got KDE working and lo and behold, it auto-configured startx for
> me and now I cannot get AfterStep to work as the XWindow environment. Even
> when I go into the directory and execute the file it does nay work. (I just
> know there is a blindlingly simple answer but for the life of me cannot find
> it).
 
 Check what your ~/.wmstyle file contains. If there is nothing, run:

echo AfterStep > ~/.wmstyle

Kate

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