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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!zephyr.texoma.net!news.stealth.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!usenet From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Install hangs in init Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:02:21 GMT Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5g4dod$1muc@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> References: <E6MMJJ.C2p@cs.fredonia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5599 In article <E6MMJJ.C2p@cs.fredonia.edu>, mazumdar@cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes: > > Everything seems to go well up to the mounting of the root and > swap partitions and then the machine just sits there doing nothing. Does > anyone have any ideas as to what could be happening? FreeBSD does not allow, out of the box, to export single files (which you need to swap on them). I think there is some switch to allow this, or just export -alldirs the filesystem where the swap file is located. Somebody please correct me... I don't use FreeBSD myself. -is