[ltp] hibernate

[Justin Nichomoff]

That hibernation time is to be expected.  I usually hibernate from Win2k
and with 384MB, it takes about 40 seconds.

On 27 Jun 2002, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> [Resent since first copy seems to have been caught by me sending from a
> different address]
> 
> On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 04:52, David Margrave wrote:
> > 
> > Does anyone here have hibernation working?  What's the performance 
> > like with 296 MB RAM to save/load?
> 
> With 512 it takes what seems like for ever to stop/start.  I guess its a
> little over a minute.
> 
> > How have you got your partitioning set up,i.e. whch partition is /, 
> > /boot, and the DOS FAT16 partition?  I recall that DOS wants to be one
> > of the first if not the first, or maybe that was only if you were 
> > setting up win NT, and you had to hide any other partitions that would
> > be before it.
> 
> I started from the base W2K install, then used Gnu parted (boot floppy
> version) to shrink the single initial partition to a few GB.
> So the DOS FAT32 partition is hda1, a small /boot on hda2 and everything
> else (which is only root + swap) in extended partitions.
> 
> I then got the IBM boot floppy (can't remember the exact title of it),
> and used that to make a hibernation file in the DOS partition.
> 
> I am expecting shortly to shrink the DOS partition to 600M or so and
> remake the hibernation file - since I need to format windows off to do
> that change.  This means other partitions will move... and I'll probably
> trash my laptop :-/
> 
> No problems in using this at all.
> 
>         Nigel.
> 
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> [ Nigel Metheringham           Nigel.Metheringham@InTechnology.co.uk ]
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