Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!icus!lenny From: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: WANTED:more swap space on a 3b1 Message-ID: <997@icus.islp.ny.us> Date: 26 Oct 89 03:50:01 GMT References: Reply-To: lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) Distribution: comp Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, New York Lines: 38 In article rjk@sawmill.uucp (Richard Kuhns) writes: |>Can anyone offer a way to request more swap space when reformatting |>the hard disk on a 3b1? I would really like more than 5000 blocks. |>What I'd really like to hear is ``Sure -- I've got a copy of s4diag |>that asks how many blocks you'd like to allocate for swapping.'' |>If I'm dreaming, I'd settle for the location of the hard-coded |>4000/5000 and I'll try patching in new values manually. Any help |>would be greatly appreciated. ... "Sure -- I've got a copy of s4diag that ask how many blocks you'd like to allocate for swapping" :-) :-) And so you YOU! All the versions of the diagnostic disk allow you to enter the swap size when formatting is invoked from the EXPERT MODE! Boot diagnostics floppy: At the choices prompt type: ------------- s4test expert> 6,2 -or- 2 ... Enter in the drive type ... Enter Swap space size in logical blocks?( Default is XXXXX ) ------------- Note the blocks are 1024 byte logical blocks (ie. 5000 = 5MB) -Lenny -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems [w] +1 (516) 589-7930 | | lenny@icus.islp.ny.us Telex; 154232428 ICUS [h] +1 (516) 968-8576 | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,hombre,sbcs,attctc}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------- ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 -------+