Subject: Re: Sharp Mobillion 4600
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
From: RJ T <rjtonline@hotmail.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 09/28/2000 15:34:02
That's what happens when a novice installs developmental stuff -- thanks for
the info.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To: "RJ T" <rjtonline@hotmail.com>
Cc: "X-Odus" <x-odus@iname.com>; <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, 28 September, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Sharp Mobillion 4600
: In message <OE10gIVzKKvuERRFKJV00000fd8@hotmail.com> "RJ T" writes:
: : Then, after creating a NetBSD filesystem (with a 5 MB swap partition;
: : everything else for / ), I needed to ctrl-z to shell and execute fdisk
to
: : note the partition information for the MSDOS partition and then, after
: : setting the editor to vi (EDITOR=vi; export EDITOR) executing
dislabel -e
: : wd0 and adding my MSDOS parition as drive e.
:
: Hmmm, I never use a Swap partition. When they are used they wear out
: the flash faster due to their high update rate. When they aren't used
: they they are a waste of space.
:
: Warner
: