From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 15:15:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A70B116A4B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:15:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.linuxcare.com (mail.linuxcare.com [216.88.157.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E93143FBD for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Bill@linuxcare.com) Received: from linuxcare.com (yoga.i.linuxcare.com [10.1.1.5]) by mail.linuxcare.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84A2C8FC75; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Sender: wiliweld@linuxcare.com Message-ID: <3F95AFF5.F0895921@linuxcare.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:15:17 -0700 From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Timothy Luoma References: <16263.27709.682246.167116@whale.home-net>, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best known methods for dual boot with XP with functionalhibernate? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 22:15:18 -0000 Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I am getting ready to try and do this with my Dell 7500 so I'm > particularly interested in how to do this correctly. > > I have a 29gb hard drive, 512mb ram and (IIRC) a 16mb video card. So if I > understand correctly I have to make a "Save to Disk" partition of 528mb. > > What I plan to do is this: > > 1) Make a 10gb FAT32 partition (so it can be mounted R/W from FreeBSD) for > WinXP > 2) Make a Save to Disk (S2D) partition > 3) Install FreeBSD in the remaining space > > I have "D5788807.exe" and "Z5788807.exe" which I downloaded from Dell's > website. I believe one of these will make the S2D partition. I have > turned on 'Save to disk' (instead of save to ram) in the BIOS. > > How does WinXP know to use the partition and not create a hibernation file? > For that matter, how does FreeBSD know to use it? What do I need to > install once I get FBSD running to enable it? (I'm a relative newbie to > FBSD, but I did get 4.8 installed on the machine without much trouble). In the past when doing support for Dell laptops (running Linux) I had to use their utility called "phdisk*.exe" which had some different results as did when laptops were shipped from the factory. One customer had a functional laptop and then doubled his memory and insisted we adjust the suspend to disk partition, it was as actually an OS/2 partition "BUT" coming from the factory was placed at the front of the drive (first primary partition) -- that was how they were shipped from Dell. But what happened when we ran that utility, the one downloaded from the Dell site, it created a (primary) partition AT THE END OF THE DRIVE, unlike how the customers laptop was shipped to him from the factory. The utility actually queried the system for the amount of memory then made the appropriate size partition. There were many different downloadable images from Dell based on the laptop model so beware. -- Bill Schoolcraft