On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:22:18PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2001 15:23, Alexander Clouter wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have not seen any facility in IBM laptops to do this. All the > > > facilities that I have used have been based on the "ps2.exe" program > > > which uses space on an existing partition. The space requirement is RAM > > > + Video RAM + a small amount. > > > > On the old thinkpads they used to use a partition of type a0, however it > > seems that more recent thinkpads only support the DOS file suspend. > > BUGGER. However you may find that its an "undocumented" feature. Try > > creating the partition and see what happens. I imagine IBM removed this > > feature because people couldn't understand the existance of anything but > > FAT partitions, this probably caused problems for re-installs. > > > > Create a partition of type a0 and see what the BIOS says when you suspend. > > If it doesn't work....then make a DOS partition and live with it. > > I've just tried a partition of type A0 and it doesn't work. > > Making a DOS partition is a problem as I don't have Windows installed and it > seems that there is no DOS software to setup such a partition. > > Hmm. Could someone with a DOS partition setup please tell me the name and > attributes of such a file? Maybe if I use a file with the right name and > attributes it'll just work... Nope. The BIOS needs to know the offset of the file, of course.
As soon as you move it you're screwed. Andreas Mohr
