NetBSD -current has a new swap system that pretty much allows
	you to put swap anywhere you want. The latest mac68k snapshot
	is 970601 which is _probably_ recent enough (if it has
	/sbin/swapctl then its ok)

- Thought for the day... "I miss my dog"

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Onat Ahmet wrote:

> 
> 
> Hi;
> 
> I'm trying to install NetBSD onto a Classic II. I want to
> place most of the static system files (i.e. those that are
> not going to be changed frequently) on a 5.25in MO disc; 290M.
> Swap & users will reside on the only spare HDD I have,
> which is just 100M. (RAM is 10M BTW.)
> 
> The meta FAQ says this is not possible; that the system and swap
> partitions must be on the same drive no matter what "fstab"
> says, and to change this, a new kernel must be compiled :(
> 
> 
> I'm a newbie in installing NetBSD (did install Linux once),
> but I am comfortable with UNIX, and have some system
> administration experience on Sun OS.
> 
> So I would welcome any advice on seperating system and swap;
> or any available kernels that can do this.
> 
> Thanks;
> 
> 
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