Re: Dell D600 odds-n-ends
Tobias Roth <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"