From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 22 11: 8: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D71037B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:07:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA37028; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:07:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAMJ7tF50372; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:07:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:07:55 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RESOLVED - Re: loader issues... Message-ID: <20001122110754.B50255@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A39@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A39@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:36:46AM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:36:46AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > This is a problem, because the easiest way to make the two-partition setup > is to create a swap partition of 2x memory size, and "the rest" for /. No "problem" but "pain in the ass". One must create swap first, take note of the free space, delete the swap partition, make the root partition with the size noted, and then re-make the swap partition. > Has a PR been filed for this one? Nope. I did not realize the same limitation did not exist on the i386. I thought it was something inherent to BSD. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message