From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 4 10:17:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ravel.n2.net (ravel.n2.net [207.113.132.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E92A37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blovett@venus.bsdguru.com) Received: from venus.bsdguru.com (postfix@venus.bsdguru.com [207.113.133.11]) by ravel.n2.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f64HHgg28619 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by venus.bsdguru.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3B1013C39; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 10:17:26 -0700 From: Ben Lovett To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and suspend-to-disk Message-ID: <20010704101726.A1449@bsdguru.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Lovett , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010703101035.A1027@bsdguru.com> <3B433888.7020304@quack.kfu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B433888.7020304@quack.kfu.com>; from nsayer@quack.kfu.com on Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 08:38:48AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD venus 4.3-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (100% of Full) X-GPG-Key: http://www.oneinsane.net/~blovett/blovett.pgp X-GPG-Fingerprint: C75F A722 1518 03B8 26C3 77A1 7C76 8AFA EBAB 2004 X-Disclaimer: All things expressed here are my opinions only, and not those of any past, present or future employers. X-Organization: San Diego BSD Users Group [http://www.sdbug.org] X-Uptime: 10:13AM up 1:06, 5 users, load averages: 0.99, 0.47, 0.19 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I believe I saw Nick Sayer (nsayer@quack.kfu.com) write this: > Ben Lovett wrote: > > > > >I've already created the space needed for the partition (around 250MB), > >by running fips on the fat32 partition. But, I would like to know what > >application I need to get that new partition "ready" for suspend to > >disk.. Or do I just need to assign it a certain partition id? > > > > Leave the space unpartitioned and run 'phdisk /create /partition' after > booting your windows partition to DOS. > > ** WARNING ** > > On my old Insperon 3500, when the suspend-to-disk partition was placed > beyond 2G, bits of the disk would be trashed on suspend-to-disk! Maybe > they've fixed this, maybe they haven't. :-) Since Dells generally don't > come with a suspend-to-disk partition (they use a suspend file instead, > but that only works under DOS), it's probably unsupported to use the > partition (the option is there because they got it from Phoenix, their > BIOS supplier). > Hrm... I'll want to think this through then.. I definately do not want to have to rebuild my system right now. Are there any plans to possibly support the suspend file on the DOS partition? I assume the answer is no, but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask ;) Not that this is the best answer, as the partition would be the ideal solution. Thanks! -ben > > > > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > > >-ben > > > > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Lovett printf("Hello world!); blovett@bsdguru.com return 0; -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- It's not a bug, it's tradition! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message