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Posted: Feb. 22 2007,20:32 QUOTE
I'm trying to install DSL on my IBM Thinkpad i1300 1171-340 (500MHz Celeron, 128 Ram, 6GIG hard drive (510MB swap hda1, rest ext3 hda2)

When I'm doing the preinstall stuff, the swapon /dev/hda1 comes up with Device or resource busy.

I'v rebooted and went to the ATerminal and did this.

NOTE: I ahve to boot this laptop with the fb800x600 boot option to get the desktop to fit.

Any help?... ideas?

Thanks...
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Posted: Feb. 22 2007,20:45 QUOTE
That is typically an error you would get when the device /dev/hda1 is already being used.

If you had already done a mkswap on /dev/hda1 then upon boot up of DSL it will already be used as a swap partition. You swapon command would not be needed.

You can check with the 'free' command.
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Posted: Feb. 22 2007,20:52 QUOTE
yep.... i rebooted and watched it closely and seen it was using the swap partition.... Thanks for your reply tho.
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