On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 07:27:47PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > I've made some minor changes to the hurd having to do with swap space. > (These changes are in cvs, but not yet propagated to the anoncvs mirror.)
Those are really nice changes you did, Roland. [...] > I think we should stop telling people to use $(add-paging-partition) et al > in the boot script (/boot/servers.boot) and instead to boot up with no swap > and then use swapon. This is what Linux and other systems usually do > nowadays. Should I add some magic to cross-install to automatically detect Linux swap partitions from /etc/fstab and add them to Hurd fstab? native-install could then create the device files, as it does for the root device right now... maybe it's not good to have cross-install doing too much, though... If someone else wants to give it a try, you're welcome! > Note that for a native install, you'll need to run MAKEDEV for the swap > partition devices before you can run swapon. But I expect everyone has at > least enough memory to do that. ;) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
