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