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9. Swap Partitions

Because of the way disk partitioning is done, if the first partition on a disk starts at cylinder 0, and is used for swap space, it will overwrite the drive's partition table. This is a bad thing. The new proposed format for swap partitions should solve this, but it is not available at the time of the distribution release. Therefore, you have two options:


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