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From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
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Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
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Excellent.  I think that was the missing piece.

Thanks,
Wade

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, David O'Brien wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:11:59PM -0400, H. Wade Minter wrote:
> > I ran through the installer again, and I set the disk up like so:
> >
> > /dev/da0a - /
> > /dev/da0b - swap
>
> The order in which you assign them is important.  Sysinstall knows that
> the swap partition must be `b'.  Also that / must be `a'.  However, if
> you first allocate swap and then /, you are telling Sysinstall to put the
> `b' partition before the `a' partition on your disk.
>


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