Re: success story: FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad X23

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?

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