Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:32:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: nadav@barcode.co.il (Nadav Eiron) Cc: zgabor@CoDe.hu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rewt@i-Plus.net Subject: Re: Windows 383spart.par as SWAP slice? -Reply Message-ID: <199705271232.HAA09502@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <338AC314.235B@barcode.co.il> from Nadav Eiron at "May 27, 97 02:18:44 pm"
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In a previous message, Nadav Eiron said:
> Zahemszky Gabor wrote:
> >
> > Reply to : How to use the M$ swap-file under FreeBSD?
> >
> > > When you shut down freebsd, you'll need to restore the drive for dos
> > > to use:
> > > turn swap off
> > > copy the dos partition table back to the drive
> > > copy the dos partition image file back to the slice
> >
> > Well, I've 2.1.5, and not 2.2.x, but my questions:
> > a) can we swap off? (It's not in 2.1.x)
>
> No, and probably will not for some time. See man swapon (the BUGS
> section...)
This is too bad. You'd probably have to reboot into single user mode and
to the restore to Windows mode.
> > b) How can we run some software at shutdown-time? As I know, SYSV-type
> > Unices can do it, but we cannot do that with 2.1.x.
Oh, this is fairly easy. If you use shutdown, then the files ending in
.sh in $local_startup are run with a stop option.
> > Maybe these are new features of 2.2.x?
> >
> > Gabor
> > --
> > #!/bin/ksh
> > Z='21N16I25C25E30, 40M30E33E25T15U!' ;IFS=' ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ';set $Z;for i { [[ $i = ? ]]&&print $i&&break;[[ $i = ??? ]]&&j=$i&&i=${i%?};typeset -i40 i=8#$i;print -n ${i#???};[[ "$j" = ??? ]]&&print -n "${j#??} "&&j=;typeset +i i;};IFS=' 0123456789 ';set $Z;X=;for i { [[ $i = , ]]&&i=2;[[ $i = ?? ]]||typeset -l i;X="$X $i";typeset +l i;};print "$X"
> Nadav
>
>
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