Just installed Solaris 8, Now need Swap

[stevenriz]

During boot of a new installation of Solaris 8, I receive
"No swap devices configured"

So I run a swap -l and get "No swap devices configured" so I then try a swap -a /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 and receive "/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1: I/O error"

I would like to have some swap seeing this is going to be a test server and all. Where did I go wrong here?
Steve

Here is the layout I created during install of Sol8.
# df -k
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 1018191 47357 909743 5% /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6 1018191 730351 226749 77% /usr
/proc 0 0 0 0% /proc
fd 0 0 0 0% /dev/fd
mnttab 0 0 0 0% /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 1018191 6915 950185 1% /var
swap 181608 8 181600 1% /var/run
swap 181616 16 181600 1% /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 494235 9 444803 1% /export
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 13791767 1360 13652490 1% /opt

 

[SamBones]

Could you list your [tt]/etc/vfstab[/tt] file? You seem to have some swap defined because of [tt]/tmp[/tt] and [tt]/var/run[/tt], but the [tt]swap -l[/tt] command should have shown something.

To create a swap file, do something like the following...

mkfile 512m /usr/swapfile
swap -a /usr/swapfile

Change the size and location to meet your needs. You also need to add a line to your [tt]/etc/vfstab[/tt] file so it's added at boot time.

Hope this helps.

 

[SamBones]

Have you used [tt]format[/tt] to format the [tt]/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1[/tt] slice? You'll need to do this before the slice can be added as swap.

Hope this helps.

 

[routeconfig]

Does anyone know from where can Solaris 8 or 9 be downloaded (intel or sparc)free? Thx in advance.

 

[SamBones]

It's a free download from Sun for SPARC platforms, $20 for Intel. Or, just a little more than that if you want them to send you the media ($50 to $95).

http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html

Hope this helps.

 

[SamBones]

P.S. You should probably start a new thread if you have a new topic, not change topic in someone elses thread.

 

[routeconfig]

OK. Just checking since this thread was also talikng about Solaris installation
Thx anyway.

RC