> 
> Howdy...
> 
> I am trying to install 1.2 onto my SE/30, using the internal 40meg disk and an
> external 80meg.  The internal disk has a 5meg HFS partition and my 35meg /
> partition while the 80meg disk has my 62meg /usr partition and an 18meg swap
> partition.  I have '/dev/sd1b	none	swap	sw 0 0' in my /etc/fstab and
> 'disklabel' in the minishell shows /dev/sd1b to be a swap partition, but I get
> 
> swapon: /dev/sdb1: device not configured
> 
> on bootup.
> 
> When I did a minimal install to just the 80meg drive, I did not have this
> problem, I only get it when I try to install using both disks and put the swap
> partition on the external drive.

As Paul said, with GENERIC kernels, you must have swap on the root
partition.

But what's wrong with having root on the 80 MB? You could still mount
a partition from the internal..

Take care,

Bill