Task 3: Swap Partition

If the drive is pre-partitioned, or if Task 2 has already been performed, the installation software will now suggest initializing and activating a swap partition. The Main menu will look like:

Main Menu: Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition. As we built a swap partition in the last section the Next choice is the correct one to follow. In the above case this will present the following dialogue box:

Swap Partition Selection Notice that only the partition that was marked 'Linux Swap' is presented as an option for a swap device.

Pressing Enter here will present an information box asking if the partition should be checked for bad blocks. Answer yes here and the next question is ``Are you sure you want to do this?''. Answer yes here and the swap partition begins to be initialized. When the initialization is complete the swap partition is mounted and the program returns to the main menu, after checking out the system to see how far the installation has progressed.