Re: thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions...

Peter Radcliffe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Randy Bush <[email protected]> probably said:
> brand new t40p with 60gb drive had only one partition, and it was
> 54gp.  i figure recovery stuff etc. is hidden above the 54g, but
> don't really know (plan to beg for the cdroms on monday). 

Yes, there is a hidden partition above that for windows recovery.
Since I have the CDs and I do backups I just nuked it.

> but there was no visible (with freebsd fdisk or partition magic)
> hibernate partition.

XP will use a file in the NTFS partition to suspend to disk (not via
the BIOS). FreeBSD cannot, so if you want FreeBSD to suspend to disk
you need something else for it to suspend to - I use a suspend to disk
partition.

P.

-- 
pir

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