On Monday 22 November 2004 8:54 am, Lian Liming wrote:
> RRPotratz wrote:
> > This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are
> > / and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of
> > RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition.
> >
> > When I try out
Technically all you need is a "/" partition. A SWAP partition is highly
recommened; it's the equivelant of virtual memory on Macintosh or Windows.
The others are all optional, so that if one partition gets wiped the others
live, or sometimes it's just handy.
For example, I have SuSE Linux d
RRPotratz wrote:
This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are
/ and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of
RAM. That being said, still make a swap partition.
When I try out a distro, I generally add a /home partition as well so
that if I install
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, RRPotratz wrote:
> This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are /
> and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of RAM.
> That being said, still make a swap partition.
you only need swap if you run out of "real" memery...
and
This CAN be confusing. Technically, the only partitions you NEED are /
and swap. Even then you may not need swap if you've got a ton of RAM.
That being said, still make a swap partition.
When I try out a distro, I generally add a /home partition as well so
that if I install another distro, o
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