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From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Install hangs in init
Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:02:21 GMT
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In article <E6MMJJ.C2p@cs.fredonia.edu>,
	mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes:
> 
> 	Everything seems to go well up to the mounting of the root and
> swap partitions and then the machine just sits there doing nothing.  Does
> anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening?

FreeBSD does not allow, out of the box, to export single files (which
you need to swap on them). I think there is some switch to allow this,
or just export -alldirs the filesystem where the swap file is located.

Somebody please correct me... I don't use FreeBSD myself.
	-is