Hi John, Do you remember (I never do :) where the HowTo came from? Perhaps if it's anything Janina has control over she can get rid of the obsolete one. The internet is a great place for ancient garbage and it really messes things up. If the entire Fedora distribution came from pointers in that old HowTo, though, it should be internally consistent so presumably isn't the cause of the swap partition hang(???) Note also that the first IDE hard disk is HDA; I assume HAD was just a typo. (If it did give you a chance to write HAD somewhere, that wouldn't have done things any good...) Lee _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list