From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:58:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507142258.37498.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42D6BB5F.3090608@asmallpond.org>
On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions
> >> into the free space, / and /boot.
> >
> >Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required.
>
> You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not
> necessary here. There may be some performance difference between a swap
> partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days
> when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares.
nope ;)
there is no difference between swapfile and swap with 2.6
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-14 14:39 [gentoo-user] 1st Install Mark Humphrey
2005-07-14 15:38 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-07-14 18:59 ` Allan Gottlieb
2005-07-14 19:22 ` Richard Fish
2005-07-14 20:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
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