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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wupost!slustl!ejh From: ejh@slustl.slu.edu (Eric J. Haug) Subject: 386bsd swap size change method Message-ID: <1992Aug4.160248.15010@slustl.slu.edu> Organization: St. Louis Univ. Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 16:02:48 GMT Lines: 20 You really do not need the install program to change the tiny swap partition size. I installed the tiny system first, played around a bit. I then booted the fixit disk and ran disklabel -r wd0. I noticed the small swap size. I have 16Mb memory in this computer. so i tried to create a disktab entry, elvis would not run because there was too little room on the disk. So now what? I tried disklabel -e wd0. It starts, complained also about no space on the floppy, but allowed me to actually change the sizes in the on disk disklabel. Well, lets do it right now. Get out the calculator and get the swap size right and on a cylinder boundary, also get the size of the wd0a partition right. Rerun disklabel -e wd0 changing to the correct values. reboot the fixit disk, run disklabel -r wd0, note that disk really is set the way i want it. then get cgd@agate.berkeley.edu's notes on installing from the fixit disk, follow them, reboot on the hard disk. I then set up to ftp the bindist, by following the INSTALL.NOTES. eric