> 
> 
> I need to add two more swap partitions, but swapon reports "device not
> configured."  I used mkfs_1.4 to convert a pair of 10M HFS partitions to
> swap, but no dice.  I even tried letting it format one of them.  They
> are on the same device as / and the regular swap partition.  Is there
> something to format/configure swap that i've forgotton about?  here is
> the disk information if it helps:

Did you re-configure your kernel? With the current system, you have to.

> hawkins# disklabel sd0
> # /dev/rsd0c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: SCSI disk
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 6
> sectors/cylinder: 192
> cylinders: 834
> total sectors: 164058
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
> drivedata: 0 
> 
> 7 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:    40963    82135    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.  427*- 641*)
>   b:    20491    61644      swap                        # (Cyl.  321*- 427*)
>   c:   164058        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 854*)
>   d:       32       64   unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
>   e:    40140       96       HFS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 209*)
>   f:    21408    40236      swap                        # (Cyl.  209*- 321*)
>   g:    40960   123098      swap                        # (Cyl.  641*- 854*)

Why not just make partition b bigger, to include the space in partition
f? Also, I think all the swap partitions are supposed to be the same size.

Take care,

Bill