> 
> did I read somewhere it was a heathen thing to do...ie; make swap the
> FIRST partition?

There's no real reason why it couldn't be the first partition. Bear in
mind though, that if you're going to boot from that drive your kernel needs
to be physically within the first 1024 cylinders.

It's typically not set up this way, though.

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