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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: Another 0.1 success References: <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu> Date: 20 Jul 92 16:57:29 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.711651449@du9ds3> Lines: 37 In <1992Jul20.140617.17787@usl.edu> pml@cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes: >I brought up 0.1 on a stock ComuAdd 486/50 this weekend. >Absolutely no problems other than the nits that have been >discussed here already. I left 100 meg around for DOS >and gave the rest of my 400 meg disk to BSD. >I will be trying to get a PPP link up to my office this >week. I am also looking forward to the X release mentioned >here recently. >Thanks Bill and Lynne! Great work! >I have one newbie question. Since the install only creates >one partition by default where does the system do swapping? >-- >patrick I does not create only one partition, it really makes two. Use the disklabel program to see that the last 10000 blocks (5MB) of the whole disk (wd0c) are used for the swap file system wd0b. More interesting are the asterisks for wd0b in this display (if you have some). This is a cylinder misalignment of the swap partition. I haven't run into the problem of extreme swapping, so: has the bug been corrected that overwrites part of the adjecent partitions on misalignment? What will happen if the 5MB allocated are not sufficient for a 'memory hog' task? Curious to know about that Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"