[TriLUG] Re: Newbie needs help

[Mike Fieschko]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 08:33:32 -0700 (PDT)
Alan Byerly <originalmadmoses at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>     I'm just beginning with Linux, finally got up the
> courage to leave Windows, and I need some help.  I'm
> working with the Knoppix 3.7 live CD and have been
> trying to load it to the hard drive on an old IBM
> 300PL.  I've figured out the basics on how to install
> Knoppix however when I try to install it on this
> particular hard drive I get the following error
> message:
> Error: Expected at least 7 tokens for --radiolist,
> have 4.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with this error
> message or have any ideas on how to fix it?  Any help
> you could give me would be greatly appreciated.

You may not have a swap partition.

What's in your /etc/fstab, and, did you do 

`mkswap [whateverpartitionyouhaveasswapin/etc/fstab]`

So, if /dev/hda9 is your swap partition, you do as root

`mkswap /dev/hda9`

(without the `` marks).

(Found this suggestion by going to google.com/linux and searching
"tokens for --radiolist".)

If you don't have any swap partition in your /etc/fstab, you first need
to create a new partition and set its ID as `swap`.

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