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#49
I did the extrootfs script with no problems but swapon is failing.

If I try the commands exactly as written:
1. Create an empty file to hold the swap:
* dd if=/dev/zero of=/Root/swapfile bs=1024 count=24576
2. Turn the empty file into a swap file:
*mkswap /Root/swapfile
3. Now it can be activated like that (as root):
*swapon /Root/swapfile
4. To deactivate it, use this command (as root):
*swapoff /Root/swapfile

It first chokes on step 1 unless I am root because it won't let me create a new file in /Root as user.

I then sudo gainroot and it chokes on step 3 with a mysterious "swapon: /Root/swapfile: Invalid argument"

Any ideas?

Oh and how come the second partition is obviously working but it does not show up in the list when you issue the "mount" command with no args?