Subject: Re: Good and cheap laptop for NetBSD?
To: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@Ngbert.org>
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/06/1998 11:34:00
>Why yes, we did.
>
>A friend got his Sony Vaio 505G the day it came out, and it's happily
>dual-booting Win98 and NetBSD.
>
>Some caveats:
>[...]
Oh, one other thing:
This laptop requires a disk partition to save the machine state. It's
got the same partition ID as the IBM Thinkpad save area (the partition
ID escapes me, but -current fdisk knows about it). Make sure you
have this partition on the disk, otherwise suspend/resume won't work.
--Ken