Subject: Re: Adding a Swap file
To: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/27/1995 14:59:25
> 
> 
>    I am running out of swap.
> 
>    Can I add swap like the sunos mkfile 50M swap; swapon swap method?
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1m count=50
> vnconfig -c /dev/vnd0c swapfile
> swapon /dev/vnd0c
> 
> This assumes you have `pseudo-device vnd N' and `swap on ... vnd0c
> ...' in your kernel file.
> 
I'm getting this:

/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/conf:root@doublesix>config.new DOUBLESIX
DOUBLESIX54: netbsd says swap on vnd0, but there's no vnd0
*** Stop.

I have:
config		netbsd	root on sd0 swap on sd0 and vnd0
pseudo-device	vnd	3

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