Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 17:40:35 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.0-RC1 install: disklabel editor Message-ID: <20021217014035.0DF415D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:39:32 %2B0100." <20021217003932F.hanche@math.ntnu.no>
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> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:39:32 +0100 > From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> > > + "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>: > > | In any case, in the disklabel screen down-arrow until you get to the > | partition you want to use as swap. Note the size and press 'D' to > | delete it. Then up-arrow to the entry at the top of the screen for the > | slice the swap will be created in. Press 'C', enter the value for the > | size of the swap space, press <enter>, and then select Swap. Bingo! > | You have swap. > > This fits my memory too, but now after entering the size, I get > directly to the question on naming the mount point. Before that, if I > remember right, there used to be a question whether I wanted swap or a > file system. That question no longer appears. Very odd. I am running RC1 and I did exactly what I recommended with no problem. Since I was using the existing space, I just did C<Enter> and the window offering the Swapfile option appeared. I just tried it again on my RC1 system and it worked as I described. ????? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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