Okay, my new RiscPC hasn't turned up yet, but I want to be ready to roll
as soon as it does! :-)

I've read through the Beta release installation notes and some of the
materials on the web server, and I have a couple of questions:

1) What do I need to take into account when choosing the size of my
   swap partition? Is 4.4BSD like previous BSDs (I've administered
   SunOS 4 in the past) where one has to back all physical RAM by
   swap space in order to get to use the memory at all, or is it one
   of these systems where the total virtual memory is the sum of
   physical memory and swap space?

2) Do I have to have separate / and /usr filesystems or can I lump
   everything under /, by just not setting aside a /usr partition for
   example? (no debate on the desirability of this approach, please! - I know
   all the arguments for and against, and on a system of my very own with
   no lusers trying to fill up the disks, I'd go for the simplicity and
   flexibility of having all my free disk space in one place given the
   chance).

3) Which kernel should I be downloading, for bootstrapping the system
   for the first time? Do I just go for the most recent one in the
   beta/kernels subdirectory of the FTP server or should I use the one
   at the top level of the beta directory, or what?

Thanks in advance for any comments or advice.

Regards,

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Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                     Oxford University, UK
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