From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 11:24: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vicosa.dpi.ufv.br (vicosa.dpi.ufv.br [200.17.74.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9F037BC18 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kernel@tdnet.com.br) Received: from tdnet.com.br (port46.tdnet.com.br [200.236.148.146]) by vicosa.dpi.ufv.br (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id PAA16474; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 15:17:53 -0200 (GRNLNDDT) Message-ID: <393FE405.74EE9B0E@tdnet.com.br> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 15:20:53 -0300 From: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios Reply-To: grios@consultant.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Sold Cc: grios@consultant.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing References: <393DCA16.29666605@tdnet.com.br> <393FDCD3.CA38061B@i-clue.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph Sold wrote: > > 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. Ok! I think i did the wrong question: When i install free, i must set a swap partition! The questions is: If i have enough memory, why the install utility does not install the OS if i don't set a swap partition (of course, i am not requiring the installer do guest if i have enough menory or not. But if i decide not to have a swap partition, then it should install Free without a swap partition)? -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect! Reboot now? [ OK] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message