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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!kripalu!harit
- From: harit@kripalu.com
- Subject: Re: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan20.192934.658@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu>
- Sender: harit@uunet!cbmvax!xmws!kripalu
- Reply-To: harit@kripalu.com
- Organization: Kripalu Center
- References: <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 19:29:34 GMT
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- In article <FAB9452.93Jan19153325@nigel.tamu.edu> fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu (Allan
- Bailey) writes:
- >
- > Help! :-)
- >
- > I keep running out of disk space on these puppies.
- >
- > I have a server that exports most stuff to the clients. But the
- > Upgrade_3.0.app slurps up the disk space via the /private/vm/swapfile
- > growth phenomenon.
- >
- > Is there anyway to make swapfile stay put? Maybe if i just deleted it.....
- >
- > any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >
- >
- >
- > --
- > Allan Bailey, UNIX programmer, CSC |
- > fab9452@nigel.tamu.edu | or: nefud-the-delirious@tamu.edu
- > 616c6c616e206261696c6579 |
-
- What I have been doing is booting the client as a NetBoot client from the
- server then using BuildDisk on the client's disk to upgrade. I do not keep
- files on the clients so this works for me.
-
- --
- Michael Allen Latta
- Kripalu Center
- harit@kripalu.com
- (413)448-3288
-