In previous mail, Masami and Ken Nakata spewed forth:
> 
> The kernel in the official 1.2 release can use only the swap partition
> on the same drive where the root (/) partition resides.  In this case,
> you have the root partition on sd0 and the swap on sd1.  That's why.

Ok, that explains it...Thanks everyone for the response.  I guess I'll do some
futher obscene with my partitioning.

> Why don't you install everything in the external drive?

Mostly because I'd like to have a usable amount of free space after the
installation so I can compile and install some additional software.

Once again, thanks.  I'll let you know how it goes.

PeeWee

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