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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: "Real" partitioning questions Date: 18 Aug 1993 18:06:12 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <24tr2k$jgh@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <24thif$5iv@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: fubar.cs.montana.edu In article <24thif$5iv@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>, Marc Wandschneider <storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> wrote: > > The first three instructions are, boot the fixit floppy, dislklabel > the disk as appropriate, and newfs the partitions. > > The two questions are: > > How do I the first partition bootable and know to boot off the 386bsd > kernel? I trimmed the top of your article, and can't remember if you needed DOS as well. If you need both, you can install a boot manager that will prompt you at boot for which partition should be made active. You can also use fdisk, and mark the partition active. > Secondly, do I newfs the swap partition? Is there a flag to newfs > that tells it to create a swap partition? No, don't newfs it, just set its type to swap with disklabel, and the swap mechanism in BSD will do the rest. (Swap is not managed as a normal ufs/filesystem, it's essentially just a hunk of blocks that the swap mechanism manages all its own. -- 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