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Date:      Mon, 16 Sep 1996 10:55:54 +1000
From:      George Scott <George.Scott@cc.monash.edu.au>
To:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Build is complete
Message-ID:  <199609160055.KAA02387@moa.cc.monash.edu.au>

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> 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.

To me that looks like an reason to have vn in the kernel on the fixit floppy
rather than in GENERIC.

George.


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