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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2000 21:29:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   ram drive on 4.0
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005162120280.560-100000@genisis>

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Is there a tutorial anywhere for adding a RAM drive to FreeBSD 4.0? The
recipe I used in 3.x no longer seems to be valid.  Here's what I've gotten
so far from my searches and manpage reading:

Tried swapon -a but get this message:

swapon: /dev/ad1s1b: Device not configured

So I doublecheck /etc/fstab which does contain:

/dev/ad1s1b	none	swap	sw	0	0

(Also tried the line mentioned in the handbook, but got same error as
above, but worse as refused to mount my filesystems)

Check /dev which does have an entry for ad1s1b, so I try:

sh MAKEDEV ad1s1b

It does it's thing, still not configured. Reboot, still not 
configured. Also doublecheck my kernel config file to verify options MFS
is not remmed out.

Any other hints to try?

Dru



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