>Once you have the partition set up with fdisk (type 83), you do >"mkswap /dev/hdaN". heh- your funny. I ment a swap *File* not swap partition. And I found the way- dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=8208 chmod 600 /swapfile mkswap swapfile 8208 swapon /swapfile and for reboot- fstab /swapfile none swap sw heh- swapfile.