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
