> 1) I need to do a link which needs around 100Mb+ of memory to even think about 
> starting 
> from what I can tell. The question therefore arrises of how to swap to a file. 
> I guessed 
> swapon(8) (well not so much a guess but...) but this doesnt work: 
>  
> 	# swapon /disk1/swapfile 
> 	swapon: /disk1/swapfile: Block device required 
>  
> (I did play around with mknod too, but all the variants I tried came back with 
>  device not configured). Any ideas? 

How have you created the swapfile?  If you did a mkfile <size> /disk1/swapfile 
then this ought to work, but you'd be better off putting the reference to it 
in the /etc/fstab file so it gets picked up on reboot.  The line you need in 
fstab is something like:

/disk1/swapfile swap swap rw 0 0

and you then just need to do a swapon -a for this to be actioned.

Sorry, can't help you with the printer :-)

Simon.
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