Re: can't activate swap
you didnt mention that you rebooted, that message is very common when you
do not reboot. some system configurations REQUIRE it. make sure you
reboot BEFORE you try to format the drive, otherwise you will probably
screw the whole drive up.
nate
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
c-3 >I already tried what you told me. But it didn't work.
c-3 >A made a swap partition with 24MB (of course I changed the type
c-3 >to Linux Swap), formatted the partition with mkswap, but when I
c-3 >tried swapon I always got "swapon: device or ressource busy"
c-3 >
c-3 >> On 27 Feb 2000, FreeMan wrote:
c-3 >>
c-3 >> c-3 >Hi,
c-3 >> c-3 >
c-3 >> c-3 >I'm trying to install Debian 2.0 on an old Compaq-computer, but I
c-3 >> c-3 >can't even activate the swap partition. I always get the error
c-3 >> c-3 >message "can't activate swap - device or ressource busy".
c-3 >> c-3 >What am I doing wrong or is it probably a problem with the chipset?
c-3 >> c-3 >(I'm using a Compaq ProLinea 3/25zs with a WDC-chipset, i386/25
c-3 >> c-3 >Processor and 4MB RAM - I tried various harddisks)
c-3 >>
c-3 >> login as root, run fdisk, find the swap partition
c-3 >>
c-3 >> then quit fdisk
c-3 >>
c-3 >> type mkswap /dev/XXXX
c-3 >>
c-3 >> where XXXX is the device name for the swap partition
c-3 >>
c-3 >> then swapon /dev/XXXX
c-3 >>
c-3 >> to turn it on, see what happens. some systems you have to reboot after
c-3 >> you change the partition table (before you even format the partition), if
c-3 >> it still doesn't work include a listing of fdisk -l <device> where
c-3 >> <device> is the name of your hdd (/dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/sda /dev/sdb etc)
c-3 >>
c-3 >> nate
c-3 >>
c-3 >> nate
c-3 >
c-3 >
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c-3 >
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