Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 22:01:19 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends Message-ID: <20041014200118.GB21533@speedy.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <416E99DE.20404@centtech.com> References: <416E8CE3.4000903@centtech.com> <xzpu0sxgym2.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20041014150354.GA29421@droopy.unibe.ch> <416E99DE.20404@centtech.com>
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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:23:10AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >or a hibernation file on the first fat16 or fat 32 slice. if you want to > >keep windows for the occasional firmware upgrade, you may want to convert > >the windwos filesystem from ntfs to fat32 and then put a hibernation file > >on there. > > Does FreeBSD know to look there for the hibernation file, or is that a > BIOS thing? Also - do I use a Dell tool to create the hibernation file? it's a bios thing. i never done this with dells, but i guess if you don't find a dell-specific tool, you can use the ibm-one [1]. however, some googling [2] pointed me to pHdisk.exe from dell, maybe that's what you need. > I don't have Windows on my laptop - just FreeBSD, so if there is a way > to do this without loading windows on it, I'd be much happier. Although > I don't mind having a fat16 or fat32 partition around for this purpose.. no windows is no problem. the ibm tool comes as a dos boot disk. [1] http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-4PESMK&loc=en_US [2] http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/linux/b142.htm
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