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>Setting up Swap Space</TITLE
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>Once you've set up your partition information, and have assigned
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>"mount points"</SPAN
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> (ie. /usr is the mount point for the /usr
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file system), the installation program will ask you which partition(s) it
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should used for swap space. Since your swap partitions should already be
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identified as such (partition ID # 82), you can press
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> to begin formatting those partition(s)
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for swap usage. I recommend you enable the <SPAN
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blocks during format</TT
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> to ensure the partition is free of
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potentially damaging problems. It does slow down the formatting process
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