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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Swap Partition, How Not To ? Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:34:10 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4le9ki$f8r@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4l95td$mth@news.ios.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 joe@soho.ios.com (Kent Robotii) writes: >Is it possible to install FreeBSD, without creating a swap partition first? It's not very useful. Note: ``swap partition'' usually refers to a portion of the FreeBSD `slice', i.e., you don't have to reserve an fdisk partition for it. (Installation will work if you've got enough RAM so the installer would never attempt to swap out something. I assume 16 MB might count as `sufficient', 8 MB most likely not.) >I want instead, to create a swap file, is this possible, if so, HOW? It's in the FAQ. Check out at http://www.freebsd.org/ -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)