From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 21:07:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA28989 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA28983 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA20194; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:08:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 21:08:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jim Dennis cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Seagate ST15150 wi Adaptec 2940 -- can't install In-Reply-To: <199604172248.PAA20620@mistery.mcafee.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Jim Dennis wrote: > > > I'm getting a "could not swap to /dev/rsd0a1" (or messages to that > effect) from a machine on which I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 > (from the Walnut Creek CD set). Sounds like you forgot to designate a swap partition, or you mis-labelled it. Make sure the "b" partition has a mountpoint of "swap". > In either case the I do a 'W'rite and the system reports that > the partition table is O.K. -- I've tried going on to > labeling the disk immediately, and I've tried rebooting and > skipping to that part (several variations, several times). No no no! Do NOT use W ever! It is seriously broken! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major