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Date:      Wed, 17 May 2000 00:10:18 -0400
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ram drive on 4.0
Message-ID:  <20000517001018.I58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162253340.981-100000@genisis>; from genisis@istar.ca on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:58:30PM -0400
References:  <20000516224748.H58707@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162253340.981-100000@genisis>

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On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 10:58:30PM -0400, Dru wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> 
> > Oh. OK. You had me totally confused... And I'm not completely there
> > yet. Why were you trying to use this non-existent drive ad1 then? It's
> > obviously not your swap device.
> 
> Which is why I'm confused; according to my /etc/fstab it still is.

"According to your /etc/fstab?" Who put it there in the first place?
Wasn't it you?

> Waded through man mount_mfs and tried the example at the bottom:
> 
> 	mount_mfs -s 131072 -o nosuid,nodev /dev/ad1s1b /tmp
> 
> Wanna guess the error message (drum roll please......)

I know what it will be...

> 	mount_mfs: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured

'Cuz you have no ad1 drive! Why are you trying to use one?

> Anyone have any idea what the correct device name for my swap should be
> and how do I configure it?

What swap device did you use when you set up this system? Was it
/dev/ad0s1b by chance? How about,

  # disklabel ad0s1

And we'll see if there is a swap partition on it.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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