https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … partitions has a link to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Swap What info is missing?
I don't think anything is missing, but I agree that the word "mount" is not very clear and could be changed to "activate" or "enable" (which is the word used on the swap page).
]]>perhaps the Installation guide should include a reference in the "header section" to the Beginners guide.
Ummm: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide
This document will guide you through the process of installing Arch Linux from the live system booted with the official installation image. Before installing, you are advised to skim over the FAQ. See Beginners' Guide for a highly detailed, explanatory installation guide. Category:Getting and installing Arch contains several more installation guides for specific cases.
Emphasis mine.
I think tis is enough.
]]>As already suggested, the Beginners' Guide is intended for the category of user you're thinking of here.
]]>However, in beginner's guide it says you mkswap and then you turn it on, swapon. Then booting after generating an fstab, you realise you don't have to include your swap line in fstab.
]]>Why not use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide instead?
Edit: You can use man pages: 'man mkfs', 'man mount' etc.
]]>So anyway, I'm in the process of installing the thing, and just following along as best as I can the very helpful WIKI install instructions. I was doing just fine until I got down to the part of this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide
that says that after you have partitioned your disk you need to format the partitions and then mount them. OK, No problem. Heck! I can do that! I even managed to figure out on my own that there is this special magic command... not mentioned on the page above... that you need to use in order to prepare a partition for use as a swap partition. (On FreeBSD, which I am far more accustomed to, there is no such command and _nothing_ needs to be done to prepare a partition for use as swap space.)
In a similar vein, I had to go off and do a bit of googling when I was utterly stumped by the entire notion of having to "mount" the swap partition (as the page above advises one to do).
I quickly found the info I needed, but I just wanted to suggest that the page at the link I've given above could be improved I think, especially for "newbies", by adding some more hyperlinks, specifically in the two (terse) sections that talk about formatting and mounting partitions. It wouldn't hurt, I thnk, to have a link to a page describing how to do an ordinary mkfs, another link to a page describing mkswap, another link, to a page about mount, and finally a link to a page about the swapon command. (I assume that what was really meant when the suggestion was made to "mount" the swap partition was actually that one should do a "swapon" for the partition, yes?)
Just tryin' to be helpful.
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