From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 20 16:38:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C74D15033 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:38:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bradyn@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 21 Jan 2000 00:38:13 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:38:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Niall Brady To: Matt Rohrer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Starting from the basic point... did you create a partition which was designated as swap during the install process? If not, you'll want to try the install again, but making sure to specify one of the partitions *specifically* as a swap partition... say give it about 64MB in your case. -- Niall On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Matt Rohrer wrote: >I'm trying to install 3.3 to a brand new Maxtor drive. In the >disklabel editor I get the message "Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b: Device >not configured. This may cause intallation to fail at some point if you >don't have a lot of memory. > >This is true. I've attempted to install many times (Cyrix 133 w/16 megs >RAM) and get a dump every time. My question is, how can I "configure the >device" so that the swap space will work? The system I'm installing on has >nothing but the fresh drive, a cdrom and a floppy drive. > >Thanks for helping a newbie. > >-Matt > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message