home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit
- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: resize swap space?
- References: <92230.085004NXS10@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 14:47:07 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de
- Message-ID: <veit.714062827@du9ds3>
- Lines: 29
-
- In <92230.085004NXS10@psuvm.psu.edu> <NXS10@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- >I installed 386bsd on my pc.Now I want to run xwindows on that.How to change sw
- >ap space now when I have the complete system loaded?I have tiny boot flopy,fixi
- >t floppy &bin01.**.
- >thanks.Neena
-
- Sorry, not much chance for now. You have to give up your BSD partitions to
- make room for the swap space, unless
- - you have a second drive (and the 2-drive patches for the kernel) which
- you can use for swapping, or
- - you have empty space after the BSD -A5- partition on the disk, which you
- can extend (the swap area is at the end after install).
-
- But a question for all the other wizard's:
-
- SunOS has the facility to enable swapping on a contiguous file by
- "swapon file" (even on a file mounted by NFS). Could it be possible to
- add such a facility to 386bsd without big problems? Regarding the 5MB install
- problem and the general wish to drop the overall performance of the system by
- X11 ;-) something like this seems to be necessary.
-
- Holger
-
- --
- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO
- | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are
- | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"
-