Re: FreeBSD 5.0 and Dell notebooks

On 15 Jan 2003, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 17:27, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > With a partition created by Dell's make-suspend-partition floppy, I 
> > could suspend and resume with save-to-disk on 4.6. (I have since trashed 
> > the partition, because I needed its partition table slot.) So there is 
> > some hope this might work on -current also.
> 
> Provided you stick to APM..
> The suspend to disk thing is only available with APM - an ACPI OS is
> supposed to do all of that stuff without help from the BIOS.
> 
> Unfortunately no one has written suspend to disk support for FreeBSD yet
> :(

But they have: dumpon(8)

-Nate
(only half kidding)


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