On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 12:20:04PM -0400, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> I have a spare hard drive, available for the computer running NetBSD. Can I
> configure the installation so that the swap partition goes there, instead of
> on the same drive as the operating system?

Yes. 




Ok, just kidding. You need to hook the drive up and disklabel it. Do
create a partition b that covers the part of the disk you want as your
swap partition (the whole disk?). Change your /etc/fstab to have your
new partition b as the swap partition. Reboot. 

You don't have to pick partition "b", you can actually pick any letter
that falls inside the range allowed for your platform. However, b is
the standard choice, and picking the standard makes accidents less likely
later.
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