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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> James Miller wrote:
> >
> > But how do I turn on swap?
>
> swapon /dev/hd??
>
> > I'm expecting the swapon /dev/hdx
>
> You are short a digit there.  It needs to be /dev/hda5
> or /dev/hdb2 or whatever.

swapon /dev/hda3 (location of the swap partition on the system in
question) gets the response from the system: swapon: not found

> > but that command is not in the ramdisk BL3 filesystem
> > (checked /sbin , where I think it should be).
>
> /bin/busybox/swapon

The command /bin/busybox/swapon /dev/hda3 gets the response:
/bin/busybox/swapon: cannot execute.

My conclusion: it ain't workin' for some reason.

> > There seems to be no "which" command in this ramdisk
> > version ("which: command not found") either.
>
> Strange.  I deleted quite a bit of stuff from that filesystem
> (to get it to fit in your 4mb RAM) but I don't see why 'which'
> would be missing.   /bin/busybox/which

/bin/busybox/which gets the response: /bin/busybox/which: cannot execute.

> I wonder if there is a PATH problem?

Could be, I guess.  How do I find out?

James