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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: makeing world
To: tcg@ime.net
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 01:50:30 -0500 (EST)
Cc: andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <31DF5835.1C08@ime.net> from "Gary Chrysler" at Jul 7, 96 02:24:53 am
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> Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > 
> 	<chomp>
> > 
> > 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.
> 
Unfortunately, we currently have NO way to turn off swap space.  That
is one of my next projects (true swapping on files, and unswapping.)

John