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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: Swap problems
In-Reply-To: <199706230114.DAA00272@ocean.campus.luth.se> from Mikael Karpberg at "Jun 23, 97 03:14:36 am"
To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:59:55 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> Now... My problem is that my computer wont swap.
> Why is this not working?
> 
> ocean# swapon -a
> swapon: /dev/wd0b: Device not configured
> ocean# dir /dev/*wd0b*
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    3,   1 Jun 23 01:43 /dev/rwd0b
> brw-r-----  1 root  operator    0,   1 Jun 23 01:43 /dev/wd0b
>
What does your dmesg output look like?  Also, check the output
of the disklabel command:

disklabel wd0

and make sure that the system sees your "b" partition.

John