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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 1996 23:31:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To:        Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: makeing world
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960706232715.13668A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <31DF5835.1C08@ime.net>

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On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote:

> Annelise Anderson wrote:
> > 
> 	<chomp>
> > 
> > Yes, I think so.  The benefit of single user mode is probably also
> > (or primarily) that there's more memory available.  I had 16 megs and
> > it failed without the swap partitions mounted.
> 
> Welp, It's a 486DX-33 with 8megs and it completed while in
> single user. If `shutdown now` kills the swaps, then It was done
> without swap space.
> 
> -Enjoy
> Gary
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Actually I think if you go to single user mode with /sbin/shutdown now,
the swap partitions are probably mounted, whereas they're not if you
start from a reboot with -s.  Anyway, glad you got it done!

Annelise

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