Subject: Re: Some minor snapshot 980606 problems
To: Leo Smiers <L.Smiers@cable.A2000.nl>
From: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/14/1998 17:53:03
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Leo Smiers wrote:
> Hello All
Hi,
I'll try and answer these questions, but not having had much time for unix
recently I'm a bit behind on things...
> Today I have installed the snapshot dd 19980606. It seems to work but I still
> have some small questions:
>
> 1 During bootup I get the following warning:
> WARNING: no swap space configured.
> I think I have to add a line to the /etc/fstab file but I am not sure how
> the line should be. If I add:
> /dev/wd1b none swap
> I get complaints about the format. So what should it be?
I think it tells you the format in man fstab, I don't know it, but I guess
that you need a number after swap for the swaps priority...
> 2 Also during bootup I get the warning:
> savecore: can't find device 0/0
> How can I resolve this? This is an error I have since 1.3_ALPHA.
Have you got /netbsd the same as your boot kernel?
> 3 If I try 'vmstat' I get the following errors:
> vmstat: no drives attached
> vmstat: time makes no sense; namelist must be wrong
> I boot with the RISCPC_uvm kernel version 3F and have also linked /netbsd to
> this image.
Perhaps you've still got an old copy of vmstat, or you didn't untar the
files with the p options to preserve permissions and it needs to be
suid...
> 4 And finaly, in the directory /usr/lib are some newer shared libraries
> installed. These have a higher version number than the previous ones, eg:
> old: libamu.so.0.0
> new: libamu.so.0.1
> I wonder if I can remove the old versions or do I have to keep them to run
> programs that expect these old versions.
You should be able to, most libraries are backwards compatible, and all
your new binaries will expect the new libs.
Cheers,
Chris