Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:52:04 -0400 From: Dan Pelleg <peldan@yahoo.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: success story: FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad X23 Message-ID: <15546.52468.447529.657996@gargle.gargle.HOWL> In-Reply-To: <20020415120047.GA32473@madman.nectar.cc> References: <15545.60617.677567.597037@palraz.wburn> <20020415120047.GA32473@madman.nectar.cc>
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Jacques A. Vidrine writes: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:55:37PM -0400, Dan Pelleg wrote: > > > > I recently put 4.5-R on a X23. There's a short account of my experience > > doing it for the benefit of future users at > > > > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dpelleg/X23_freebsd.html > > In the page above, you wrote: ``Hibernation for FreeBSD: still doesn't > work.'' > > > It works on my X20, at least. But with the default Windows 2000 > install, hibernation is handled by Windows instead of by the BIOS. > Briefly, here is how I got hibernation working: > > = Repartition so that you have a FAT partition as the first > partition. It must be big enough for your hibernation file --- so > make it a bit larger than physical memory. > > = Install DOS on that partition. > > = Download the IBM PS2 for DOS utility [1], and install it on the > DOS partition. > > = Use the PS2 utility to create a hibernation file. > > Now hibernation works. > > Cheers, Thanks! Would the rescue routine (F11 on boot) be smart enough to re-install Win2K in the next free partition? In other words, what's the procedure to get from this to a dual-boot machine? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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