On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Wolfgang Rupp wrote:

> I have set up my VS3100M38 to netboot from a Linux box. Since I am a
> newbie to NetBSD and VAXen, I sticked exactly to the "VAX Netbooting
> HOWTO", and everythig worked fine. Unfortunately, I destroyed the
> swapfile and I am absolutely unable to recreate it correctly.
> 
> What happened, actually, is that I that the SCSI controller in the
> PeeCee decided to bus-error, and the disks were in a less then optimal
> state after that. (Since this is a civilized list, I will not repeat
> my comments ;-)
> 
> Could you please tell me or point me to a doc? What "apropos swap"
> brings up did not get me a clue how to create a swapfile in NetBSD.
> Swapping is done over NFS to the Linux box.

Well, a swapfile under NetBSD is just a file.  Nothing very special about
the formatting.  You can create a new one with:

   # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile_name bs=1k count=16k

That'll create a 16Meg swapfile named `swapfile_name'.  See the dd man
page for details on dd's syntax.

-brian.
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