Re: Getting started
Try changing to the second VT (ALT-F2) and issuing a "swapoff" command,
then go back and "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition".
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote:
> Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an
> old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Perverse, but I'm doing it, and I
> have the disk-image floppies.
>
> As a first try, I made these partitions:
> hda1 swap 16Mb
> hda2 temp root 2Mb
> hda3 Linux 98Mb
>
> Problem: when I get to "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition," I
> consistently get the error message "swap could not be activated, device
> or resource busy." (I noticed, by the way, that when I exited from the
> boot process after making the partitions, there was a message like
> "swapon failed"; but the system let me proceed to dbootstrap.) Finally I
> said I'd do without a swap partition, and was able to go on to
> initialize the Linux paritition and so on.
>
> What should I do to get my swap partition working?
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