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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ljo From: ljo@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu (L Jonas Olsson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Out of memory? Date: 23 Mar 1993 20:04:28 GMT Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio (USA) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1onqgc$smn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <1993Mar23.160203.3825@coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vger.eeap.cwru.edu In article <1993Mar23.160203.3825@coe.montana.edu> osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >In article <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> crt@tiamat.umd.umich.edu (Rob Shady) writes: [about trouble with small swap partition] > >1) It does install a swap partition, the problem is it's this dinky little >microscopic worthless swap partition instead of a useful swap partition. >(It's only 5 MB's). > >2) The swap device configured in the kernel doesn't need to be in the >fstab file as far as I am aware. > >3) Add a second disk with another swap partition, or figure out a way to >make your larger, but with only 1 disk, you'll probably have to dump most >of the data off, re-disklabel, then put itback. The easy way to do this is to tell your BIOS (for non-SCSI drives) that your hard drive has less cylinders than it actually has( You will use these cylinders for extra swap, beyond 5MB). Then run standard install, change BIOS back, and boot from the HD. You can then use disklabel to extend the swap prtition to include the extra cylinders. Reboot and you're done. For SCSI drives this will not work. >4) Install program source is unavailable apparently, for reasons known only >to the author... At least I don't know where it is... >-- > Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 > 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science > Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu Jonas Olsson ljo@po.cwru.edu