Try changing to the second VT (ALT-F2) and issuing a "swapoff" command, then go back and "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition".
-- On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Charles O. Hartman wrote: > Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an > old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Perverse, but I'm doing it, and I > have the disk-image floppies. > > As a first try, I made these partitions: > hda1 swap 16Mb > hda2 temp root 2Mb > hda3 Linux 98Mb > > Problem: when I get to "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition," I > consistently get the error message "swap could not be activated, device > or resource busy." (I noticed, by the way, that when I exited from the > boot process after making the partitions, there was a message like > "swapon failed"; but the system let me proceed to dbootstrap.) Finally I > said I'd do without a swap partition, and was able to go on to > initialize the Linux paritition and so on. > > What should I do to get my swap partition working?
