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Date:      Fri, 10 Jan 2003 14:46:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        (Dave Evans) <devans@hclb.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: cdrom upgrade of existing installation, defining a swap part
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030110144626.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1042249658snx@hclb.demon.co.uk>

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On 10-Jan-2003 Dave Evans wrote:
> My current installation is this:
> 
> ad0s3a  /                              500MB
> ad0s3e  <alternative boot partition>   500MB
> ad0s3b <swap>                         2000MB
> ad0s3f /mountpoint1                   5000MB
> ad0s3g /mountpoint2                  10000MB
> ad0s3h /mountpoint3                  40000MB
> 
> I have -Current on ad0s3a and 4.0 or 4.7 on ad0s3e. Both partitions are
> below the 1024 cyl limit, which is why ad0s3e appears before ad0s3b. 
> 
> I now want to install 5.0-DP2 on ad0s3e so that I can test it for a
> while. I have the cdrom and have created boot floppies. I've booted the
> floppy and selected "upgrade existing installation", but it won't let me
> define the current ad0s3b partition as swap in the disklabel editor. It
> refuses to proceed unless there is a swap partition. Surely I don't have
> to delete the existing partitions and recreate them? What is the secret
> of defining a swap partition?

This is a known bug that I'm about to commit a fix for.  It should be
fixed in 5.0-release.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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