I've been setting up my environment this morning since my successful boot 
last night, and one of the first problems I ran into was a lack of swap 
space -- I couldn't compile either lynx or bash without it complaining it 
was out of swap and dying. So I searched the archives, found a note from 
early 2001 about creating swap space as provided in the diskless HOTWO, and 
did so, making a 16MB swap file on the root of the Dreamcast's filesystem: 

 -rw-r--r--  1 alex  alex  16777216 Aug 24 14:45 swap 

When I tried to compile bash-2.05 again, it got much futher -- apparently it 
had found the swap space -- but after ~10 minutes of compilation, it 
spontaneously rebooted. The poster who had mentioned adding swap had warned 
that there were problems with swap, and that systems using it suffered from 
instability at times. Is this still true, or has anything been done about 
it? Should I simply have created a larger swapfile -- say 32 or 64MB (I've 
got plenty of disk space for such a file on the system that houses the 
Dreamcast's filesystem)? 

Thanks again for any help that you all can provide. 

Alex Kirk