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From: rang@europa.ics.uci.edu (Roger P. Ang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Few questions about NetBSD
Date: 8 Feb 1996 20:28:17 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine, Department of ICS
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In article <4fb4qj$9de@panix3.panix.com>,
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> wrote:
>In article <4f929h$5a8@drivel.ics.uci.edu>,
>Roger P. Ang <rang@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Yes, 'swapon -a' is run in /etc/rc (I think, or in /etc/rc.local).
>>However, you have to make sure the swap partition is listed in
>>/etc/fstab. I don't think the install script does that (only sets up
>>root and /usr partitions in /etc/fstab).
>
>Are you sure that's true? If it is, the Amiga port is different from all of
>the other ports I've used.
>
>"options GENERIC", which was in most ports' generic kernels last I checked,
>pulls in swapgeneric.c, which will automagically put swap on the first
>partition it can find on the boot disk that's got fstype swap in the
>disklabel.
>
>No "swapon -a" required.
I think you answered the question about why the Amiga port might be
different. I don't think the Amiga port writes disklabels for
partitions. From the Amiga install doc:
The install program will now make the root filesystem you
specified. There should be only one error in this section
of the installation. It will look like so:
newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
newfs: /dev/rsd0a: can't rewrite disk label
If there are any others, restart from the the beginning of
the installation process. This error is ok as the Amiga
does not write disklabels currently. You should expect
this error whenever using newfs.
Roger P. Ang (rang@laputa.ics.uci.edu)
Irvine? Where's Irvine? Grad student at the
In the heart of the Orange Curtain. Dept. of Information & Computer Sci.
Oh no! The poor fool. Univ. of California, Irvine. USA