On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 21:46 -0700, michael cartwright wrote: > That worked so thanks very much. I had actually > considered changing that but was afraid that there was > some wierd naming convention in fstab that was > different from the way the partitions are usually > named. I program quite a bit and have so much stuff > on that linux partition that it's a real pain to try > to get everything back like it is now if I mess it up. > I'm curious about how the system was running at all > since the swap device was apparently misnamed and it's > been running perfectly for months now. Anyhow, thanks > again for the help. You're welcome. Your system may not have needed to swap. This can be quite common for systems with an excess of ram, and there are more and more of these given the drop in ram price. "swapon -s" will show you all your swap devices (they can be disk partitions or files) and their current usage. Cheers, Ben > > Mike Cartwright > > --- Ben Stringer <ben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 19:34 -0700, michael > > cartwright wrote: > > > When I try to do an upgrade from FC3 to FC4, I get > > the > > > following message after I have chosen upgrade > > instead > > > of fresh install: > > > > > > Error enabling swap device hde5. No such file or > > > directory. > > > > > > The /etc/fstab on your upgrade partition does not > > > reference a valid swap partition. > > > > > > I have an IDE hard drive. It has FAT partition on > > > hda1 and the rest is linux. fdisk shows the swap > > > partition on /dev/hda5. The fstab shows the swap > > on > > > hde5. I don't understand this difference and > > maybe > > > that's why I don't understand why I'm having a > > > problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > > > > Hi Mike, > > > > "hde5" would be a partition on the 5th IDE device in > > your PC, and it > > sounds like you have only one. > > > > hda, hdb, hdc = 1st, 2nd, 3rd IDE devices. > > hda1, hda2, hda3 = 1st, 2nd, 3rd partitions on the > > first IDE device. > > > > I have no idea how this would have got into you > > /etc/fstab, but changing > > it to /dev/hda5 should fix the problem. If you are > > having trouble > > booting, you can do this by booting from the first > > Fedora CD, entering > > "linux rescue", then editting the fstab file (which > > will be in something > > like /mnt/sysimage/etc). > > > > Cheers, Ben > > > > > Mike Cartwright > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > > protection around > > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >
