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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
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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
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