Novice query: Installation Help

[Colin Law]

On 2 October 2013 16:31, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have to understand know 'hibernation' before using it!
>
> It is a desktop or a laptop?
>
> There are two ways to put a computer to sleep so that it uses less (or
> no) power and you can pick up exactly where you were later, with all
> your files and programs open where they were.
>
> #1 is called Suspend mode. In this, your computer is asleep but the
> RAM is kept alive. When you open the lid, it comes straight back to
> where it was in a second or 2. But it still uses some power, so a
> notebook on batteries will go flat.
>
> #2 is called Hibernation. This way, the computer saves its memory to
> disk, then turns right off. It uses no power at all but it takes a
> minute to do it. When you turn it back on, instead of booting up
> normally, it reloads the memory image and picks up where it left off.
> Again, it takes a minute.

I believe hibernation has not been supported on Ubuntu since 12.04, or
possibly earlier.

Colin