Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!simon
From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: PACKDISK with 1 filesystem
Message-ID: <13063@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 89 15:28:34 GMT
References: <1194@ispi.UUCP> <5140@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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In article <5140@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>I made a standard boot & root floppy and kept getting:
>
>kernel: WARNING: out of swap space
>
>Can this be safely ignored, or must I hand hack up a floppy with more
>swap space? This was on a machine with 6MB of main memory, approx
>2MB of which is used by the kernel (I use a BIG disk cache)
>

Is it possible to set up a root-boot floppy that uses the hard disk for 
swap space?  Looking in /etc/default/boot on both the floppy and the hd
seem to indicate this can be done... Has anyone tried?

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