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From: frank@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of oddities...
Date: 7 Feb 1996 09:57:42 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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benno@skeeter.internode.com.au (Benno Rice) writes:

>skeeter# swapon /dev/sd1b
>swapon: /dev/sd1b: device not configured

>Which is a tad annoying. Can anyone tell me if I've missed setting something
>up? I marked sd1b as swap in the disklabel and my kernel is compiled with
>swap generic.

You'll probably have to compile the kernel with 'swap on sd0 and sd1'
(yeah, annoying that you have to do this in your kernel config file..)

- Frank
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