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>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> writes:

Kevin> Sorry, Joe. By the way, are you suspending with "acpiconf -s3"?
Kevin> Have you tried creating a hibernation partition (slice) and
Kevin> using -s4? That appears to work better than suspend on most
Kevin> platforms that support it at all.  -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network
Kevin> Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence
Kevin> Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail:
Kevin> oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634

What does a hibernation partition look like?

My dell has a 31 meg partition that I havn't touched and my FreeBSD
partition.

Dave.

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