Grr!

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Ben Pfaff on Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:53:23PM -0400:
> Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu> writes:
> 
> > Have another question though about running stuff on laptops.
> > Specifically suspend-to-disk.  From what I can tell, you need
> > unallocated free space at the beginning of the disk, and it must
> > be of sufficient size to hold all the physical RAM you have, correct?
> > If this is the case, then I'm kinda hosed and need to reinstall
> > WinME too, because there's not enough free space at the beginning
> > of the disk to accomodate the extra RAM I'm going to add tonight...
> > =P
> 
> As I understand it, this is true for BIOS-assisted
> suspend-to-disk.  But I don't think that BIOS-assisted
> suspend-to-disk is supported by Linux.  Fortunately, it doesn't
> need to be: there is a kernel "hibernation" patch that does this
> without any assistance from hardware or BIOS, and this patch
> works on any hardware.  (In theory at least; I haven't tried it,
> and it's still experimental.)  Google for `linux hibernation
> patch' to find it.

Ugh... getting a headache from thinking about all the stuff I have
to do to get this laptop up and running... think it's time to make
a run for some food... =P

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