From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 22 14:12:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D3B37B449; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:12:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA22021; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:11:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7MLBF423146; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:11:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200008222111.e7MLBF423146@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Greg Smith" Cc: nik@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Reflections on the Sony Vaio F709 (F590K ?) In-Reply-To: Message from "Greg Smith" of "Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:23:51 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:11:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I don't suppose anyone can mail me a copy of pfdisk.exe ? cheers. > Nik, > > Two more thoughts on your suspend to disk problem: > > 1) Did you add extra RAM? If you do this it is necessary to delete the > original suspend to disk partition [any tool will do], and then add a newly > sized partition [phdisk.exe] I have done this on two machines before with > no problem; I did have to shrink the other partitions first. > > 2) Did you install FreeBSD to take the entire HD, or to co-exist with > win95/98? If you take the entire disk option I believe it will wipe out all > other partitions, including the suspend to disk partition. > > >The suspend to disk has always used a separate partition on my > >machines, of a separate type which the BIOS recognizes. You might > >check for the existence of this separate partition. If it is not > >there the BIOS will just do nothing, or maybe beep, when you attempt > >to suspend to disk. On my dual-boot win95/freebsd machine I have the > >following: > > >PMtype PM# SIdesc SItype SIsub > >fat32 B fat 2 11 > >freebsd/386 a5 freebsd 3 165 > >savetodisk a0 unknown 1 160 > >(where PM is PartitionMagic and SI is SysInstall) > > >I got my HD this way by: > >1) defrag win95 > >2) shrink win95 partition with PartitionMagic > >3) install FreeBSD into freed up space -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message