> 
> 
> I've succeeded with installing onto a IIci, with very little trouble.
> This is nice.  But there's a couple of glitches.
> 
> It may be that my eyeballs are failing again, but i cant find
> instructions to configure the swap partition in teh FAQ.
> 
> The root partition is /dev/sd1a (second drive), and i left 16mb on the
> first drive for swap (an artifact of what was avaialble when).  the
> "build devices" enterd /dev/sd0a rather than /sev/sd0b for the swap
> partiton in fstab.  I've fixed that, but still no dice.  On boot, the
> message is still that the swap device is not configured.  I recall using
> mkswap on linux to prepare it, but that doesn't seem to exist in macbsd.
> I'm sure that i'm missing somethign obvious . . .

The problem is that a GENERIC kernel's configuration only permits swap on
the same drive as the root partition. So if root is on /dev/sd1a, then
swap must be on sd1b.

You can compile your own kernel and put swap on another drive.

Take care,

Bill