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cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
>
> I installed phoenix on a Pentium 166 and got an idea of 
> what a swap partition could be good for. I inserted a line
> 
>     /dev/hda2   none    swap

Did you use fdisk to set /dev/hda2 as a swap partition?
Did you execute:  mkswap /dev/hda2

> into /etc/fstab

/dev/hda2   swap   swap   defaults  0  0

> Then I ran swapon -av and got the message:

It may be simpler to remove swap from your fstab and just
do:  swapon /dev/hda2

Cheers,
Steven