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reformat hard drive
Name: sunsparc Date: March 7, 2001 at 10:51:31 Pacific
Comment:
I am currently trying to reinstall Solaris 7 on my Sparc Classic. During installation everything was going good. Then it stop with a write error. I'm trying to reformat the hard drive but I keep getting the message: Cannot format disk while its partition are currently being used for swapping? What do I do? I tried to delete the current partitions and relabe them but that did'nt work. Does anybody have any suggestions. It cant be a hard as it look. =:)
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