Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:50:11 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: grios@consultant.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing Message-ID: <393FDCD3.CA38061B@i-clue.de> References: <393DCA16.29666605@tdnet.com.br>
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Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > Why do i have to set a swap device before installing Free? You need to setup only one disk partition for FreeBSD. Inside this partition resides a swap partition. This one is connected from the kernel through the swap device, which in turn is nothing more than bits and bytes: a physical swap device is no longer needed nowadays, but the name stuck from the old days of computing. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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