Subject: SWAP Space and Printers
To: None <macbsd-general@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Kevin Wilson 315-456-1404 <kevin@spef16.spef.syr.ge.com>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 03/28/1994 13:29:59
I have finished the instalation of MacBSD :-).
I have run into two minor glitches however.
On booting I get a WARNING: no swap space in system (or something
close to that). I am using a Mac IIx which otherwise seems to be working
fine. The disk is a 1GB Fujitsu formatted with Anubus (its what came with
the drive). The first 5 partions are MacOS. Then next 2 are
my MacBSD partions. The first is the root & usr partion as per the README
suggestions. The second is supposed to be my swap space. Anubus gives me
all kinds of options for what these partion types could be: swap (you
might think that this would do it, NOT!), scratch (no go either), misc A/UX
partion slice [3-8] ( I tried one of them, no go). When the system is
doing it's mounts and tries to explicitly mount the swap partition it
usally says '/dev/sd0[b-h] device not configured'. I have even run
MKFS on the swap (which I didn't think BSD required [atleast not SUN's
flavor]).
Any suggestions, or what am I doing wrong?
Second, I'm tring to get an FX80 w/ orange micro serial to parallel converter
running as my printer. Where are the definitions of the flag bits used
by /etc/printcap?
Thanks
Kevin
kevin@spef8.spef.syr.ge.com
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