From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 22 6:29: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from node11a94.a2000.nl (node11a94.a2000.nl [24.132.26.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 713F715077 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 06:29:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl) Received: (qmail 21008 invoked from network); 22 Jan 2000 14:29:01 -0000 Received: from dlanor.evertsen.nl (10.0.0.3) by node11a94.a2000.nl with SMTP; 22 Jan 2000 14:29:01 -0000 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:28:57 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Klop 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 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 Hi Matt, Go to /dev and type ./MAKEDEV wd0s1b and add to /etc/fstab the following line: /dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 Then type: swapon -a This wil enable all swappartitions from /etc/fstab. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message