From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 10 10:53: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D114C37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from hclb.demon.co.uk (hclb.demon.co.uk [158.152.8.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194A143F18 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:53:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from root@hclb.demon.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by hclb.demon.co.uk (8.11.1/8.9.3) id h0AIp3u00617 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:51:03 GMT (envelope-from root) From: devans@hclb.demon.co.uk (Dave Evans) Subject: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap partition To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1042249658snx@hclb.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.43 $ Date: Fri, 10 Jan 03 18:47:38 GMT Organization: Lines: 20 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My current installation is this: ad0s3a / 500MB ad0s3e 500MB ad0s3b 2000MB ad0s3f /mountpoint1 5000MB ad0s3g /mountpoint2 10000MB ad0s3h /mountpoint3 40000MB I have -Current on ad0s3a and 4.0 or 4.7 on ad0s3e. Both partitions are below the 1024 cyl limit, which is why ad0s3e appears before ad0s3b. I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted the floppy and selected "upgrade existing installation", but it won't let me define the current ad0s3b partition as swap in the disklabel editor. It refuses to proceed unless there is a swap partition. Surely I don't have to delete the existing partitions and recreate them? What is the secret of defining a swap partition? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message