Subject: Re: How to setup swap on NFS export?
To: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
From: Mike Frisch <mfrisch@saturn.tlug.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/24/1995 18:09:00
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

> > ls -l /sun (showing only swap directory)
> > 
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Nov 23 20:57 swap/
> > 
> 
> The kernel does not expect a directory to swap on; make it a regular file.
> (could do a bit better than panic, though).

	I sure wish this stuff was documented.  I am still very much a 
newbie to NetBSD (and net booting in general) and this sort of info is 
not in the INSTALL doc.

Thanks for the info!  Everything is working perfectly now!

Mike.

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