>Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 02:45:02 +0200
>From: Frederic Cirera <fred@warka.ai.univ-paris8.fr>

>bash# swapon /dev/sd1b
>swapon: /dev/sd1b: device not configured
>
>
>#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>  a:   762048        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 1322)
>  b:    61056   762048      swap                        # (Cyl. 1323 - 1428)
>  c:   823104        0   unknown                        # (Cyl.    0 - 1428)

You need to add your swap partitions to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sd1b	none	swap	sw

See fstab(5).
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