Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: (Dave Evans) <devans@hclb.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part Message-ID: <XFMail.20030110144626.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1042249658snx@hclb.demon.co.uk>
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On 10-Jan-2003 Dave Evans wrote: > My current installation is this: > > ad0s3a / 500MB > ad0s3e <alternative boot partition> 500MB > ad0s3b <swap> 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? This is a known bug that I'm about to commit a fix for. It should be fixed in 5.0-release. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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