Re: success story: FreeBSD on IBM ThinkPad X23

> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:00:47 -0500
> From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> 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.

Is there some reason that booting ps2 from a floppy won't work? This
seems like an awful lot of work. Has anyone tried to build a bootable
CD with ps2 on it?

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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