I am new to linux but i have installed 7 linux systems,Mandrake, SuSE,
Red Hat and Debian on my and friends computers.
The easy way for me has been to find a copy of partition magic and add at
least 2 partitions to your hard drive,one of about 2gbs for the swap file
and another of at least 5 gbs.You need to format your 2 new drives.Format them in fat32 and not NTSF.Don`t use "unused space" use expert or custom function and put swape file on 2gbs drive and 2ed mount point on the 2ed new partition.You should be good to go.
I am sure someone more expert at linux could do this much better and quicker.
One newbie to another.