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. Be careful about /boot, many systems today still ship with borken LBA implementations in BIOS that prevent access to cylinders above 8GB. It is *always* safest to have /boot, and to make it the first partition on the disk. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
