Subject: Re: scsi device configuration
To: None <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Scott L. Burson <gyro@zeta-soft.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/05/1996 14:12:11
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 07:01:02 -0500
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
>>> or the (supposed) inability of the normal kernel to mount anything
>>> else than /dev/sd0a on /.
>> I think "config netbsd swap generic" (you actually want "root
>> generic", but they go together - something else that needs fixing)
>> works now, though I'm not sure.
> But supposedly this generic option prevents the use of a second swap
> device.
Probably; I rather doubt "swap on generic and sd1b" would work.
A good project for some ambitious kernel hacker. :-)
Even better would be `swapon', and the ability to declare swap partitions in
`/etc/fstab', as in SunOS.
And then there's swapping to files...
(I know, I know, if I want it, I should write it :-)
-- Scott