From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 6 23:24:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA01717 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA01677 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-4.ime.net [206.231.148.133]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA04921; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 02:23:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31DF5835.1C08@ime.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 02:24:53 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson CC: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: makeing world References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > Yes, I think so. The benefit of single user mode is probably also > (or primarily) that there's more memory available. I had 16 megs and > it failed without the swap partitions mounted. > Welp, It's a 486DX-33 with 8megs and it completed while in single user. If `shutdown now` kills the swaps, then It was done without swap space. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848