From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 15 5:52: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from LOCALHOST.cs.cmu.edu (LAGS.WV.CS.cmu.edu [128.2.67.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A5D37B416; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 05:52:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dpelleg@localhost) by LOCALHOST.cs.cmu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3FCq5200333; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:52:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dpelleg) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15546.52468.447529.657996@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 08:52:04 -0400 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: success story: FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad X23 In-Reply-To: <20020415120047.GA32473@madman.nectar.cc> References: <15545.60617.677567.597037@palraz.wburn> <20020415120047.GA32473@madman.nectar.cc> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid From: Dan Pelleg Reply-To: Dan Pelleg 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 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