Autoboot on Xenix
Connor MacLeod
macleod at cmllab.rgb.sub.org
Sat Apr 13 23:21:40 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr11.061740.409 at cynic.wimsey.bc.ca>
curt at cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) wrote:
| In article <1991Apr09.005151.2635 at cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
| macleod at cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod) writes:
|
| > | PS I would also like to know the options to mknod for createing /dev/scratch
| >
| > Hm... I think that's not necessary to create /dev/scratch. As far as I
| > remember the system uses /dev/swap (or something else :>) when auto-booting.
| > (BTW I'm running SCO Unix and I think the major/minor device numbers are
| > _not_ the same for SCO Xenix... sorry)
|
| No, the system does need /dev/scratch if your root filesystem is
| larger than a certain size.
So... If this is right what about creating a link /dev/scratch -> /dev/swap?
I don't think that /dev/swap is used during autoboot (am I wrong?).
Rgds
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