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From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sorry about replyto addr
Date: 18 Jul 1996 08:50:20 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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References: <31ECFE4C.2781E494@cs.sc.edu>
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In article <31ECFE4C.2781E494@cs.sc.edu>,
Kevin Brown  <kbrown@cs.sc.edu> wrote:
>db> call panic()
call boot(0x100)	see sys/reboot.h for flags.

>On a related note, I think I made the swap partition too small (just
>over 32 MB) - which seems to be keeping the crash dump from working
>correctly even when DDB is not configured.  Is it possible to use a
>crash file like L*n*x does?

You could try adding another swap-device, but it probably only
works on the first swap partition. 
on reboot savecore will save the swapcore in a file usually
in /var/crash so you'll need enough space there too. 

You could tar up your filesystems and change the swap size, this
should work without ruinning / since / is usually the first partition
and swap is the next. (remember to copy the editor and all needed 
files to / first and try the editor after unmounting the other
filesystems.

Cheerio
-- 
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current	release=doc host=netbsd.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror"
hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix