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From: CHAN Yiu Wah <clarence>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: WARNING:no swap space
Date: 1 Feb 1996 03:11:43 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
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plwong@cs.ust.hk (Wong Pan Lit) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've upgraded my NetBSD/i386 1.0 to 1.1. However, everytime when
>the system boot up, it always displays the following message :
	.
>changing root device to sd0a
>WARNING: no swap space found

>I've checked the root disk with command "disklabel" and it has
>the "partition b" which should be allocated as swap space. NetBSD 1.1
>also cannot run the older utility "swapinfo". Is the above description
>normal ??

you may tried swapon. For detail, please man swapon.

Hope this help

Cheers.
clarence
clarence@cs.cuhk.hk