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From: einar@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Einar Bergsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: A few questions
Date: 5 Dec 1992 01:39:09 GMT
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I have a few questions:

	1)  Has anyone gotten a printer to work under 386bsd via the 
	    parallel port?  The lpt.c driver does not appear to be
	    compiled into the kernel.  How do i configure this driver
	    into the kernel?  And what are the major and minor number for
	    the device?

	2)  I have a 486 machine which ofcourse has the onboard FPU.  I
	    happened to be watching the machine compiling the kernel,
	    and knowticed that the math emulator was beeing compiled
	    into the kernel.  Is this preventable?  And if so, how do
	    I do that?

	3)  How do I find out if the system is using a swap partition?
	    I did disklabel the drive with a new swap (wd0b) with a
	    reasonable size, but how do i know it is beeing used?

	4)  I got the code to mount dos filesystems.  How do I mount the
	    dos partition on my H-Drive?

My appologies if any of this can be found in FAQ, I have Aug version of it.
Thanks...

-- 
     -Einar-