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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Swap Partition, How Not To ?
Date: 21 Apr 1996 21:34:10 GMT
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joe@soho.ios.com (Kent Robotii) writes:
>Is it possible to install FreeBSD, without creating a swap partition first?

It's not very useful.  Note: ``swap partition'' usually refers to a
portion of the FreeBSD `slice', i.e., you don't have to reserve an
fdisk partition for it.

(Installation will work if you've got enough RAM so the installer
would never attempt to swap out something.  I assume 16 MB might count
as `sufficient', 8 MB most likely not.)

>I want instead, to create a swap file, is this possible, if so, HOW?

It's in the FAQ.  Check out at http://www.freebsd.org/

-- 
cheers, J"org

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