On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 17:08 +1200, yuri wrote: > Diligently making my way thru the handbook. > On the subject of partitioning, it occured to me that maybe I should > add a suspend partition to the laptop this time - I lost it when I > nuked XP to install mandrake. > Hard to find any info on what sort of suspend partition is needed for > NEC Versa E series laptops. > > I've found on google that Thinkpad Hibernation format uses partition > type "a0" but similar info can't be found for NEC Versa.
I have a feeling that its governed by the bios, I have had two phoenix bios laptops that both required a partition of type a0. YMMV. Look too at the linux laptops page (google linux laptops, it is always number one on the list) > > According to lphdisk info at > http://www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk/readme.html it should work for any > Pheonix NoteBIOS laptop. When I get home to night I'll see if our > laptop uses this BIOS, then problem solved. > > Also looking at swsusp as well. Does gentoo include swsusp. Cannot find it in portage, but have seen it in howtos. I suggest google for gentoo wiki, then search for swsusp > > Anyone have any tips for suspend on NEC laptops? > > Yuri -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
