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
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