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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suggestion for 3.0 :-)
Date: 9 Jun 1995 02:00:49 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:
>
> How about using all (or a chunk) of Windows swap file space as an
> additional swap space? I believe many of FreeBSD users also have MS
> Windows installed. Or is it better gto wait for Win95 and see what kind of
> filesystem they are going to use? Just a thought, sorry if I offended
> anyone and you are tempted to say: "Why don't you do it!"
1) Mount the dos file system.
2) Vnconfig the swap file.
3) swapon the vnconfiged device.
There is a file that you should delete when you do this or windows
will bitch (but it will still run) when it detects that the swap
file has been modified by another program (the Linux docs mention
this somewhere).
I've used this for local swap for BSD boxes that were dedicated
X terminal software booted diskless on DOS boxes since before
FreeBSD (386BSD patchkit 2 + Martin Renter's diskless patches and
netboot.com code).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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