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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!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"