PACKDISK with 1 filesystem
    G. Simon Gales 
    simon at ms.uky.edu
       
    Sat Oct 28 01:28:34 AEST 1989
    
    
  
In article <5140 at cps3xx.UUCP> usenet at cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes:
>I made a standard boot & root floppy and kept getting:
>
>kernel: WARNING: out of swap space
>
>Can this be safely ignored, or must I hand hack up a floppy with more
>swap space? This was on a machine with 6MB of main memory, approx
>2MB of which is used by the kernel (I use a BIG disk cache)
>
Is it possible to set up a root-boot floppy that uses the hard disk for 
swap space?  Looking in /etc/default/boot on both the floppy and the hd
seem to indicate this can be done... Has anyone tried?
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Simon Gales at The University of Kentucky
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