I also have rebootet before I formated the disk, I tried it thousand times, no matter what I did, I always got "swapon failed - drive or resource busy" I also tried other HDs, another RAM, nothing helped.
> 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 > > c-3 >-- > c-3 >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > c-3 > > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- > 3:51pm up 192 days, 4:13, 1 user, load average: 1.18, 1.08, 1.01 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > null >
