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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!mozz.unh.edu!toto.plymouth.edu!oz.plymouth.edu!not-for-mail From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (Ted Wisniewski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with Swap Please Date: 9 Sep 1995 22:33:54 -0400 Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. Lines: 33 Message-ID: <42tiqi$s99@oz.plymouth.edu> References: <42pvfo$f7c@armitage.cyberspace.com> <42t80n$mcv@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oz.plymouth.edu In article <42t80n$mcv@uuneo.neosoft.com> ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com (Chris Origer) writes: >The Man in Black (samz@support.usnetwork.com) wrote: >: If someone can help me with this it will be greatly apreciated. Does >: to the swap. Can this be done? Or am I stuck in having to start all over >: from scratch and install it right? Thanks. > > >Stuck... sorry. > If you installed a recent version (Not 2.0R) then do a man on vnconfig, you can set up swap on a file. I have done it and it does work. do: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV vn0 then (as an example) dd if=/dev/zero count=10000 bs=1024 of=/usr/swapfile vnconfig -c /dev/vn0 /usr/swapfile swap swapon /dev/vn0 Presto an additional 10ish Meg of swap. This swap will not be as fast as real swap but it will do in a pinch. | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Computer Services ted@wiz.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 HTTP: http://oz.plymouth.edu/~ted/ |