Thanks bunches! The system is up and running. I think something to this end should be put in the installation guide, or one of the many faq. I had a little trouble using vi, but after an hour of trials, i finally convinces vi to display a "/". all went well, and now I am looking for the man command equivalent. Peace. Troy
Simon Holgate wrote: > > Hi Tercero, > > I had a similar problem, basically the error occurs because the entry > for the swap is not made in the file system table (/etc/fstab), and > nothing that you've done wrong. I solved it as follows: > > I did the full install, ignoring the lack of swap space, and allowed the > reboot from hard-disk option, but instead of writing the boot disk > (which always locked up my system), I rebooted with the lomem disk in > the disk drive, but skipped everything I could and didn't repartition > the disk (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT). You will have to re-install minix, > but that's no problem. > > Once you get to the main install bit (after the lomem disk) you can hit > left-alt f2 to open up another login window. Login. > > cd to the root directory: > cd / > > make a directory, say 'junk': > mkdir junk > > mount your previously installed linux native partition (hda3?) with: > mount /dev/hda3 junk > > You can now cd junk and you'll see all your installed directories. Now: > cd /etc > > and edit the fstab file: > vi fstab > > you need to add (under the following headings) the line: > > <filesystem> <mount pt> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > /dev/hda1 none swap sw 0 0 > (or whatever your > swap partition is) > > save the file > > then cd back to your minix partition: > cd / > > unmount junk: > umount /dev/hda3 > rm junk > > and reboot! (without the floppy) Hopefully it will now read the fstab > file and safely 'swapon' your swap space. > > Please let me know if you need any more help, and better still, if > this > solution works for you. > > Cheers, > > Simon
