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From: "Randy Fowler" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: [OS2Wireless] Thinkpad hibernation - new drivers?
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:01:28 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5
To: "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:58:34 EST5EDT4,M4.1,M10.5, Orest Skrypuch wrote:

>Can you boot from the USB floppy? Say a DOS boot diskette.

DOS & Windoze no, but I believe I've booted with OS/2 floppies.

>The T40 comes with XPee, and it could only be shrunk to 6.3 Gb! I
>couldn't fit a comfortable 2Gb partition for eCS below the 8Gb mark so
>that it would boot, so I blew it away. The preload Windows partition is
>immediately reformatted to NTFS when you start it up, so I'm not sure
>that hibernation is available in that setup in any case.

Ouch! I haven't had the problem of getting an XPee preload yet.

>I could certainly set up a 1Gb DOS "C:" partition, but I would have
>trouble loading DOS as I only have diskettes for this, and I'm not sure
>it could handle a 1GB drive. Win98 you could install from a CD, but as
>you say, it doesn't support the USB floppy.

Hmm, the problem is IBM quit making the ThinkPad utilities available for
OS/2.  Therefore a small Windoze98 partition is needed to manage "ThinkPad
features", like this hybernation file.  I suggest you boot using OS/2
floppies, then create & format a 1G FAT partition, and set it to
startable. Then boot using the Win98 CD and install, then install the IBM
features for your machine.  Now you can run the IBM utils to create the
hybernation file in that FAT partition, as well as manage the other
ThinkPad settings.

HTH,

Randy

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