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Subject: Re: Problems with 170MB HD (FreeBSD 6.0)
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> I've been trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on an old Pentium MMX 200MHz
> this weekend. The box  has two HDs, a ~10GB one, which I wanted to use
> for / and a really old ~170MB one, which I wanted to use for swap. (Of
> couse there would be enough space on the first disk for swap, but I
> had this old disk lying around here and thought why not use it.)

install as without swap on 10GB drive withour touching this 170MB at all.


then (after booting installed system)

dd if=/dev/zero bs=512k count=1 of=/dev/your_170MB_whole_disk (like 
/dev/ad1)

and

swapon -a /dev/ad1


if it works - put

/dev/ad1 none swap sw 0 0

in /etc/fstab