Subject: Re: Again unto the VirtualPC
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/30/1997 17:51:56
> > My thanks to whoever fixed the swapper so you can just specify the swap
> > disk in the fstab!!!  I really like using old/small disks for swap space so
> > the seeks don't fight with other usage.  Now I don't need a custom kernel
> > just to specify that detail.
> 
> Whoa!  That works now?  Cool!  (*thinks about all the things this makes
> possible; wishes his old 540 meg drive were still alive*)

Actually, this feature went into -current last summer. :-) Since the
installer always made "swap" entries in /etc/fstab, we never noticed
the change.  With the current system, if you don't have a swap entry in
/etc/fstab (true for a lot of installs on some ports), the machine'd
just dies at one point when it ran out of swap. :-(

Take care,

Bill