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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!newsserv.uni-bayreuth.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Swap partition ? Date: 2 Mar 1996 20:39:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4habm0$af@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn4jaub0.38.root@darkstar.ios.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 root@darkstar.ios.com (root) writes: > Is there any way, to install freebsd, without creating a > swap partition first? You need enough of RAM so the installation procedure would never run out of virtual memory. I think 16 MB might be enough. > Also if this is possible, how do you create and activate, > a swap file under freebsd. It's tricky. The system is only willing to swap to a properly labeled swap partition. You can wire a file as a ``virtual disk'' using vnconfig(8) (this requires a customized kernel with the `vn' device), but you still have to disklabel this virtual disk before swapping can be turned on. It's possible to stick all these activities into /etc/rc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)