Re: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)?

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From: harit
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 19:29

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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

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Subject: Re: Upgrading NeXTstations w/ only 100Mb disks (clients)?
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