On Sun 14 Jun, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Leo Smiers wrote:
> 
> > Hello All
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'll try and answer these questions, but not having had much time for unix
> recently I'm a bit behind on things...
> 
> > Today I have installed the snapshot dd 19980606. It seems to work but I still
> > have some small questions:
> > 
> > 1 During bootup I get the following warning:
> > 	WARNING: no swap space configured.
> >   I think I have to add a line to the /etc/fstab file but I am not sure how
> >   the line should be. If I add:
> >   	/dev/wd1b none swap
> >   I get complaints about the format. So what should it be?
> 
> I think it tells you the format in man fstab, I don't know it, but I guess
> that you need a number after swap for the swaps priority...
I hope that someone is able to look in its /etc/fstab file and mail the string to
me.

>    
> > 2 Also during bootup I get the warning:
> > 	savecore: can't find device 0/0
> >   How can I resolve this? This is an error I have since 1.3_ALPHA.
> 
> Have you got /netbsd the same as your boot kernel?
Yes I have. Done a: ln kernels/RISCPC_uvm.3F netbsd

> 
> > 3 If I try 'vmstat' I get the following errors:
> > 	vmstat: no drives attached
> > 	vmstat: time makes no sense; namelist must be wrong
> >   I boot with the RISCPC_uvm kernel version 3F and have also linked /netbsd to
> >   this image.
> 
> Perhaps you've still got an old copy of vmstat, or you didn't untar the
> files with the p options to preserve permissions and it needs to be
> suid...
I think there has been a miracle, because after rebooting vmstat works ok now.
And I know it ain't MS-Windows 8-).

> 
> > 4 And finaly, in the directory /usr/lib are some newer shared libraries
> >   installed. These have a higher version number than the previous ones, eg:
> > 	old: libamu.so.0.0
> > 	new: libamu.so.0.1
> >   I wonder if I can remove the old versions or do I have to keep them to run
> >   programs that expect these old versions.
> 
> You should be able to, most libraries are backwards compatible, and all
> your new binaries will expect the new libs.
As long as most is not ALL I will not know which shared libs I can remove, Do I?


> 
> Cheers,
> Chris

Thank you Chris

Leo


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