suspend/resume on T22 running 5.2.1

[Dave Tweten]

dan at langille.org said:
>I was/am concerned that FreeBSD is not a supported OS.

That doesn't matter, because hibernation to the slice created by the 
floppy stand-alone program at

	http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4PESMK.html

is a BIOS function, not an OS function.  The only OS aspect is that the 
BIOS tells the OS to go to sleep before copying everything to disk and 
turning the power off.

>The disk in question has both Windows 98 (rarely used) and FreeBSD
>5.2.1.  Your recommendation is to proceed with the utility at that URL?

Yes, AFTER you have created enough unused space at the end of your disk 
for the slice and after you have made sure that the fourth location in the 
standard slice table is available for use.  The space required will be a 
"little more" than the amount of real memory in your machine.  I 
artificially expanded mine, to 2,116,800 disk blocks so if I ever throw 
out my 256 MB memory boardlet and install a second 512 MB boardlet, I will 
have enough space for a gigabyte of real memory.

I should emphasize again that I have done this successfully, using STABLE 
and Win2k as the two systems on my T23.  Version 5 mileage may vary, but 
this looks to me like the right place to start.
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