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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: Another 0.1 success
- References: <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 16:57:29 GMT
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- In <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu> pml@cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes:
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- >I brought up 0.1 on a stock ComuAdd 486/50 this weekend.
- >Absolutely no problems other than the nits that have been
- >discussed here already. I left 100 meg around for DOS
- >and gave the rest of my 400 meg disk to BSD.
-
- >I will be trying to get a PPP link up to my office this
- >week. I am also looking forward to the X release mentioned
- >here recently.
-
- >Thanks Bill and Lynne! Great work!
-
- >I have one newbie question. Since the install only creates
- >one partition by default where does the system do swapping?
- >--
- >patrick
-
- I does not create only one partition, it really makes two. Use the
- disklabel program to see that the last 10000 blocks (5MB) of the whole
- disk (wd0c) are used for the swap file system wd0b.
-
- More interesting are the asterisks for wd0b in this display (if you have
- some). This is a cylinder misalignment of the swap partition. I haven't
- run into the problem of extreme swapping, so: has the bug been corrected that
- overwrites part of the adjecent partitions on misalignment? What will
- happen if the 5MB allocated are not sufficient for a 'memory hog' task?
-
- Curious to know about that
-
- Holger
-
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