swap

Wolf Paul wnp at attctc.DALLAS.TX.US
Thu Jul 6 03:17:56 AEST 1989


In article <368 at trevan.UUCP> trevor at trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:
>
>	The distribution Microport V/AT has a swap device witha major
>number of 1 and minor of 198. This is infact the mem device. I suspect
>that it is redundant as the swap devices are also contained in the dsk and
>rdsk directories.


I am not absolutely certain, but believe that this is related to the fact
that the Microport boot disk in releases 2.3 and later is WRITE-PROTECTED,
and there is therefore no real swap device in a floppy-rooted system.

I believe that this does get rectified on the hard disk by the "installit"
script.

As to your comment in your previous posting about cc -Ml requiring a space
between the 'M' and the 'l' (and likewise for -Ms) -- I have not observed
this in any of the releases and have been using Microport V/AT for three
years now.

Wolf
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