On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:11 -0800 Heather
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have heard that Backpacks (which are parallel based) are also well
>supported by Linux, though I haven't tried them. I would think that a
>
>parallel CD would be rather slow compared to a CardBus/IDE linkage.
>On the oth
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel J Brooks wrote:
>
> Would this include a Hitachi CDR-1700S? A local shop has one of these
> used
> somewhat cheap and I was hoping I could use this with my Epson ActionNote
> 660c which has no CD-ROM. I have not purcased this drive yet and have
> failed to
> find any i
>All you need is a FAT filesystem of sufficient size to hold the hibernate
>volume. It does not need to have a working copy of DOS, or anything else
>on it. My 96 Mb box uses a little over 99 M for its hibernate volume,
>which shows up (if you look at it via DOS, or mount it up) as a hidden file.
> One thing to keep in mind is that passwords etc will reside in the dump.
> Even passwords that normally can't get put in swap space (such as a mount
> password for an encrypted file system) will end up in hibernation.
True - literally *everything* the computer is doing is going to be in there.
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> >What I do not know, because I set it up correctly early on, is whether it
>> >needs to be the first partition, or whether you can just use ext2resize
>> >and sacrifice a scrap of your /tmp volume to it.
>>
>> For Thinkpad's you use a program PS2.EXE to creat
Heather:
>>Would it be possible to use that under Dosemu+DOS so that you can force which
>>partition is visible as "D:" then do it?
>
> Maybe. But unless you have really good backups you probably don't want to
> try it. Just imagine the bios dumping 100M of data over your favourite file
> sys
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 13:00:11 -0800 Heather
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have heard that Backpacks (which are parallel based) are also well
>supported by Linux, though I haven't tried them. I would think that a
>
>parallel CD would be rather slow compared to a CardBus/IDE linkage.
>On the oth
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Daniel J Brooks wrote:
>
> Would this include a Hitachi CDR-1700S? A local shop has one of these
> used
> somewhat cheap and I was hoping I could use this with my Epson ActionNote
> 660c which has no CD-ROM. I have not purcased this drive yet and have
> failed to
> find any i
>All you need is a FAT filesystem of sufficient size to hold the hibernate
>volume. It does not need to have a working copy of DOS, or anything else
>on it. My 96 Mb box uses a little over 99 M for its hibernate volume,
>which shows up (if you look at it via DOS, or mount it up) as a hidden file.
> One thing to keep in mind is that passwords etc will reside in the dump.
> Even passwords that normally can't get put in swap space (such as a mount
> password for an encrypted file system) will end up in hibernation.
True - literally *everything* the computer is doing is going to be in there.
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Heather wrote:
>> >What I do not know, because I set it up correctly early on, is whether it
>> >needs to be the first partition, or whether you can just use ext2resize
>> >and sacrifice a scrap of your /tmp volume to it.
>>
>> For Thinkpad's you use a program PS2.EXE to creat
Heather:
>>Would it be possible to use that under Dosemu+DOS so that you can force which
>>partition is visible as "D:" then do it?
>
> Maybe. But unless you have really good backups you probably don't want to
> try it. Just imagine the bios dumping 100M of data over your favourite file
> sys
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