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From: paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti)
Subject: swap space/partition (was Re: Questions about 386BSD)
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.062432.20366@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
References: <1992Sep22.180926.13496@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1992Sep22.222426.24672@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 06:24:32 GMT
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In article <1992Sep22.222426.24672@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn) writes:
>rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett) writes:
>
>> 1. Swap Space. Does 386BSD automatically set up swap space for you when
>>you install it, or do you need to install the swap space yourself? 
>>Presently I only have 1 partition on my 120M hard disk, and the swapon -a
>>command is in the /etc/rc file. From what I gather swapping will not
>>be active, since there is no swap partition - or does 386BSD swap to a
>>swap file in the root partition? Can it swap to a swap file or only to
>>a partition?
>
>Only to a partition...

How do you actually _get_ swap space installed?  When doing the
installation, it says 'xxxMB free' and asks how many to use for 386BSD.
Should I tell it 10 less if I want 10MB of swap space? I've saved
postings about changing the swap space, but was unable to understand them.

Thanks,
  Dave Paoletti :)