Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:38:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Niall Brady <bradyn@maths.tcd.ie> To: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001210036040.52697-100000@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001201418520.13317-100000@uhunix5>
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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
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