From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 05:08:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18798 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 05:08:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18782 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 05:08:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-3.ime.net [206.231.148.132]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA10446; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 08:08:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31DFA911.4617@ime.net> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 08:09:53 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Annelise Anderson CC: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: makeing world References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Annelise Anderson wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Jul 1996, Gary Chrysler wrote: > > > Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > Me too.. :) Thanks for your input. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848