On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 01:38:17PM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:30:53PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Thomas Schwinge, le Sat 02 Aug 2008 12:30:47 +0200, a écrit :
> > > I set-up swap. native-install completed without problems.  (So the
> > > domU is up and running now, and I can proceed to configure it as
> > > needed.)
> > 
> > Mmm, in my memory enabling swap was strongly recommended by hurd howtos,
> > shouldn't that be done in single mode?
> 
> No, at least not when freshly installing a system: the swap-space node in
> /dev/ doesn't exist yet, and mach-defpager is not running by default.
> You have to do this:
> 
>     cd /dev/ && ./MAKEDEV hdX && mach-defpager && swapon /dev/hdX

Right, if there's a reliable way to figure out hdX at this point in the
installation process, we could issue that command of course.  Might be
difficult, though.


Michael


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