Subject: Re: Return of some problems
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/18/1996 14:15:22
[ Bounced due to a filter rule that I find overly aggressive. ]

Forwarded message:
> Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:14:41 -0400 (EDT)
> From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
> To: henry.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov (Henry B. Hotz)
> Subject: Re: Return of some problems
> CC: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
> In-Reply-To: <v02140b08ae8c3e322c07@[137.79.51.141]>
> References: <v02140b08ae8c3e322c07@[137.79.51.141]>
> 
> In response to the questions about swap space--
> 
> GENERIC kernels (and I believe this is cross-platform) do not configure
> swap space for anything other than /dev/?d0b, and it is expected that there
> be space set aside there. My best answer is to build a new kernel, using
> 	config   netbsd   root on sd0 swap on sd1 [and sd? ...]
> and turn off
> 	options GENERIC
> because it is not. This will cause the initial probe for swap space on the
> other drive. Of course, it's better to have swap space on the root drive,
> because then if the system boots at all, swap space is there. My mac has
> root swap, but my i486 has swap on both root and wd1.
> 
> -jd
> jddst19+@pitt.edu