Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:09:51 +1300
From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Patrick's Test9 suspend code.
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Unfortunately, I don't :> I'm doing most of the development work on my
Omnibook XE3, which has a 10GB HDD. Nevertheless, I fully agree with
your point.

Regards,

Nigel

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 19:46, Rob Landley wrote:
> 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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