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From: macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Autoboot on Xenix
Keywords: Autoboot Xenix
Message-ID: <1991Apr13.132140.1794@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
Date: 13 Apr 91 13:21:40 GMT
References: <19621128@thinc.COM> <1991Apr09.005151.2635@cmllab.rgb.sub.org> <1991Apr11.061740.409@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
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In article <1991Apr11.061740.409@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote:

| In article <1991Apr09.005151.2635@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
|   macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod) writes:
| 
| > | PS I would also like to know the options to mknod for createing /dev/scratch
| > 
| > Hm... I think that's not necessary to create /dev/scratch. As far as I
| > remember the system uses /dev/swap (or something else :>) when auto-booting.
| > (BTW I'm running SCO Unix and I think the major/minor device numbers are
| >  _not_ the same for SCO Xenix... sorry)
| 
| No, the system does need /dev/scratch if your root filesystem is
| larger than a certain size.

So... If this is right what about creating a link /dev/scratch -> /dev/swap?
I don't think that /dev/swap is used during autoboot (am I wrong?).

Rgds

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