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> I would like to use a second HD as a swap disk.  but I cant seem to do 
> it.  If I edit fstab so that swap is that disk and run swapon -a it says 
> that disk is not conffigured.

The problem is that the kernel has to be configured (at compile time)
to be able to swap on a particular drive. You'd need to make your
own kernel to swap on a drive other than the one with your root partition.

Take care,

Bill