Hello,
I've been trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on an old Pentium MMX 200MHz
this weekend. The box has two HDs, a ~10GB one, which I wanted to use
for / and a really old ~170MB one, which I wanted to use for swap. (Of
couse there would be enough space on the first disk for swap, but I
had this old
I've been trying to install FreeBSD 6.0 on an old Pentium MMX 200MHz
this weekend. The box has two HDs, a ~10GB one, which I wanted to use
for / and a really old ~170MB one, which I wanted to use for swap. (Of
couse there would be enough space on the first disk for swap, but I
had this old disk l
On 04 Dec Christian Wurst wrote:
> I booted up from CD and started creating slices on the HDs, which
> worked perfectly for the primary master HD (the 10GB one). But
> sysinstall complained about an incorrect geometry setting for the
> 170MB drive and asked me to enter them manually. I didn't want
> install as without swap on 10GB drive withour touching this 170MB at all.
>
>
> then (after booting installed system)
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=512k count=1 of=/dev/your_170MB_whole_disk (like
> /dev/ad1)
>
> and
>
> swapon -a /dev/ad1
>
>
> if it works - put
>
> /dev/ad1 none swap sw 0 0
>
> in /et
