From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>, Shaheed <srhaque@iee.org>
Subject: Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:46:32 -0600
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On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:41, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Whenever I switch from testing a 2.4 kernel to testing 2.6, I do a clean
> boot for precisely this reason. I'd love it if I could just suspend 2.4,
> boot the new 2.6 kernel, see if it suspends properly (to a different
> swap, of course) and then resume the original 2.4 kernel. But doing so
> would only work if I mounted 2.6 entirely read only, which is not what
> you seem to be planning.

You could of course have two completely different sets of root and swap 
partitions, if you have the disk space.  (And either not sharing /home or 
unmount it before suspending...)

Assuming you have the disk space, of course. :)

Rob

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