Re: Need advice installing Debian on Inspiron 2500
not flaming or attacking or anything like that - just being cautionary...
No, don't delete that - 10:1 chances are that you have 32mb of ram and
that's your suspend partition - when you suspend to disk, the contents of
your ram have to be written... to your disk, and I suspect this is also
why our friend here has no success with his suspend due to 'broken bios' -
although it is possible that suspend just doesn't work.
-cyn
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Joseph Fannin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:52:48PM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
> > 1. I see that the hard disk has a 32Mb partition called Dell Utility
> > Can I safely delete this? What is it?
>
> I don't seem to have one of these on my i2500, so I'd say it's
> probably safe to delete.
> >
> > 2. How do I make sure that suspend-to-disk will work after installing
> > Linux and then Windows (unfortunately I need to use this too) on the
> > machine. I will repartinate the disc in Linux.
> >
>
> Dell has broken the BIOS of the i2500, so APM doesn't work. This
> means no suspend of any kind in Linux, or even battery status. Power
> management works fine in Windows without worrying about it, since Windows
> suspends-to-disk in a file in its own filesystem. (I'm assuming
> Windows PM works because they have a working ACPI implementation.)
>
> Under Linux ACPI isn't very useful either -- it can't suspend or
> hibernate, and can't even read the battery status of the i2500
> either. If you have the built in mini-pci ethernet, you'll have to
> build a kernel with the intel ACPI patch
> (http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm) or
> build the non-free e100 driver, since the eepro100 driver and stock
> ACPI don't get along, at least for me. If you'd like a re-diff'ed
> version of the patch for a recent kernel, let me know.
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