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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!torn!watserv1!mks.com!fredw From: fredw@mks.com (Fred Walter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD 0.1 dist.fs doesn't like 12 meg in my machine Message-ID: <1992Jul27.153214.22664@mks.com> Date: 27 Jul 92 15:32:14 GMT Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Lines: 26 I could not get 386BSD 0.1 to install with 12 meg in my machine. Booting off of the boot floppy I made from 'dist.fs' and typing install resulted in : nothing happening. Once I told my machine it only had 8 meg (via cmos settings; I didn't feel like physically removing the memory) the install worked. *but* it disklabeled/partitioned my drive incorrectly, putting a far-too-big wd0b at the start of wd0a. I used disklabel -r -e to fix the size and position of wd0b - I put it after wd0a (assuming that the sector postions start at 0 and not at 1). Now, how do I tell my machine that this is supposed to be swap space ? What do I need to do to prepare it ? (Where can I ftp or otherwise get documentation ?) BTW, thanx for second.drive.randy. One nit - in trying to setup the swap space I managed to get a panic, and it then dumped all over my hard disk, trashing the file system. What do I change so that it won't trash my filesystem like that ? I'd prefer to be able to boot from floppy and fix what caused the panic... Thanx, fred -- Disclaimer: everything I write is my *personal* opinion and does not represent or reflect the opinion of the company which employs me.