Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:05:46
Message-Id: 200507142258.37498.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install by Richard Fish
1 On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote:
2 > Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3 > >>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions
4 > >> into the free space, / and /boot.
5 > >
6 > >Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required.
7 >
8 > You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not
9 > necessary here. There may be some performance difference between a swap
10 > partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days
11 > when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares.
12
13 nope ;)
14
15 there is no difference between swapfile and swap with 2.6
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