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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!news.tuwien.ac.at!not-for-mail From: martin@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Martin Birgmeier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: diskless booting w/ 3c503 ethernet card fails? Date: 4 Sep 1995 10:09:32 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Comm. Engr., Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria Lines: 17 Message-ID: <42ec7s$6i4@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> References: <4272b5$n3k@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at> <427frk$dr8@fu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at In article <427frk$dr8@fu-berlin.de>, Thomas Graichen <graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: >i set up a diskless FreeBSD box some day ago - with smc-ultra but i also had >problems with a hanging system at the moment it started to swap - my >question now is - how have you created your swap-file - touch like in the >FAQ ? - this way it hung for me - but if you create it using dd if=/dev/zero >of=swap.X.X.X.X bs=1k count=Y with X.X.X.X you know and Y the size you give >in the cfg.X.X.X.X file - this way it worked for me - also try to find an [...] No, I did the dd stuff (i.e. I have a swapfile of presumably the correct size). Unfortunately, I can't swap locally, since I must not destroy my colleague's DOS installation :-). -- Martin Birgmeier Martin.Birgmeier@nt.tuwien.ac.at Technische Universitaet Wien mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik und Hochfrequenztechnik