Try 'swapctl' not swapon - where did you see the swapon note?

                David/absolute
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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Ian Thomas wrote:

>      I have a laptop with only 4MB of RAM on it and a
> 122MB HD.  I have managed to boot the boot-tiny.fs on
> it but I am having trouble finishing sysinst.  The
> doc's say to use the command swapon but this is not
> included as a command when you first boot from floppy.
>  Any suggestions on how to proceed?  I was able to
> write the inodes and get to the point where it asked
> for kern.aa.  Unfortunately it said that it could not
> read the floppy I put in so I had to abort.  When I
> tried to run the install again I got could not write
> to disk when it was going to write the ffs.  I checked
> fdisk and it shows the partitions that I have setup. 
> I used disklabel and it shows the name I have chosen
> for the disk.  This laptop only has a floppy drive and
> no PCMCIA slots.  It does have a Parellel Port and
> Serial Port.  
>    I know this may sound like a waste of time but I
> strongly believe that this machine is not obselete and
> can be used.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Ian
> 
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