Well I've been considering installing Debian onto my laptop to experiment with it. However, being relatively new to to Linux (used it frequently but have only installed it once), I was wondering ...

Yeah, I know, Linux pages, but they still call it a SWAP partition.I've got a system with a 16GB CF as the system drive (actually, the ONLY drive), and 4GB (I thought I had 1GB sticks - they were ...