From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 10 18:52:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA26272 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ferrari.sfu.ca (ferrari.sfu.ca [142.58.110.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA26236 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:52:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (mcquiggi@fraser [192.168.0.101]) by ferrari.sfu.ca with SMTP (8.7.1/SFU-2.6H) id SAA22676 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin McQuiggin Received: by fraser.sfu.ca (8.6.12/SFU-2.6C) id BAA28613 (from mcquiggi@sfu.ca); Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:51:56 GMT Message-Id: <199604110151.BAA28613@fraser.sfu.ca> Subject: Re: Want a Kernel that doesn't require swapspace To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:51:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9604101744.AA01154@wavehh.hanse.de> from "Martin Cracauer" at Apr 10, 96 07:44:13 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a way to use a kernel without swapspace, start init and a few > other processes and *then* add swapspace by swapon()? One simple way would be to modify /etc/fstab so that you don't mount any swap partitions. Kevin -- Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD mcquiggi@sfu.ca