Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 14:40:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey), FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Build is complete Message-ID: <658.842650813@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:27:50 EDT." <9609132027.AA03265@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
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> The vn device is not of any utility in getting a machine running far > enough to compile a new kernel. It sure does if you have no swap partition configured (or it's been rendered unusable) and you just need to get enough swap made available, using anything from your windows swap file to a file hastily constructued in /var somewhere for the purpose, to compile a rescue kernel. Maybe when swapon works "native" on regular files it should go. I've found it useful several times. Jordan
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