From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 10:49:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6983137BA06 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 10:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id VAA30471; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:52:44 +0200 Message-ID: <393FDCD3.CA38061B@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 19:50:11 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grios@consultant.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing References: <393DCA16.29666605@tdnet.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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