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. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message