Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:28:57 +0100 (CET) From: Ronald Klop <ronald@node11a94.a2000.nl> To: Matt Rohrer <rohrer@hawaii.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10001221525350.311-100000@dlanor.evertsen.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10001201418520.13317-100000@uhunix5>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Matt Rohrer wrote: > I'm trying to install 3.3 to a brand new Maxtor drive. In the > disklabel editor I get the message "Unable to swap to /dev/wd0s1b: Device > not configured. This may cause intallation to fail at some point if you > don't have a lot of memory. > > This is true. I've attempted to install many times (Cyrix 133 w/16 megs > RAM) and get a dump every time. My question is, how can I "configure the > device" so that the swap space will work? The system I'm installing on has > nothing but the fresh drive, a cdrom and a floppy drive. > > Thanks for helping a newbie. > > -Matt Hi Matt, Go to /dev and type ./MAKEDEV wd0s1b and add to /etc/fstab the following line: /dev/wd0s1b none swap sw 0 0 Then type: swapon -a This wil enable all swappartitions from /etc/fstab. Greetings, Ronald. -- Ronald Klop http://node11a94.a2000.nl/~ronald/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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