From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DtAtu-0008NJ-Bh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:05:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EL4G4V016624; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 21:04:16 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EKwTmh025437 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:58:29 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 82FD12A9DDE for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:58:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648522A9DD0 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:58:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.6) with ESMTP id 6520287 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:58:38 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 22:58:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42D67920.8050006@net-1.org> <42D6BB5F.3090608@asmallpond.org> In-Reply-To: <42D6BB5F.3090608@asmallpond.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507142258.37498.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 82348683-8770-446c-b81c-0c75185d89a5 X-Archives-Hash: 210938ad88114aea461c1546cc0e8266 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list