thinkpad R40 freebsd preperation questions...

[Tobias Roth]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 08:34:43AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > if i remeber correctly, hibernation partitions will not work. instead you
> > have to use that ibm floppy to create a hibernation file. it will be
> > created on the first available FAT partition. so you might want to think
> > twice before converting the Win XP partition to NTFS. if you do that, you
> > will need to make an ordinary FAT partition and then create the
> > hibernation file therein.
> 
> can do that except i don't have a floppy.

yes. i had to borrow a floppy drive for that too. luckily, half the
office uses thinkpads, and they all have floppies.

i think it would be possible to make a bootable cd rom with the same
stuff on it as the floppy image? tho i would not know how, i hardly
every use windows or msdos.