From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 16 17:40:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C045037B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3089443E4A for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:35 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 0DF415D04; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:35 -0800 (PST) To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:39:32 +0100." <20021217003932F.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:35 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20021217014035.0DF415D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:39:32 +0100 > From: Harald Hanche-Olsen > > + "Kevin Oberman" : > > | In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the > | partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to > | delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the > | slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the > | size of the swap space, press , and then select Swap. Bingo! > | You have swap. > > This fits my memory too, but now after entering the size, I get > directly to the question on naming the mount point. Before that, if I > remember right, there used to be a question whether I wanted swap or a > file system. That question no longer appears. Very odd. I am running RC1 and I did exactly what I recommended with no problem. Since I was using the existing space, I just did C and the window offering the Swapfile option appeared. I just tried it again on my RC1 system and it worked as I described. ????? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message