On 10/3/05, Libin Varghese <libinv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My question is why do we need the swap partition? You don't need to have one, but it's a good idea if you have the disk space and would like to use more memory than is physically installed into your system. > I seem to be asking the wrong group, I will really appreciate if > anyone could give me the mail id for the linux setup mailing list. There is no such list. However, there are lists like linuxmanagers (http://www.linuxmanagers.org/) as well as your local Linux User Group - for the UK we have a http://www.lug.org.uk/ clearing house of the different LUGs but your region may differ. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/