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From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: PowerPC installer
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:09:48 -0600
Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote:

> As part of my work on BSDInstall (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall), 
> I've produced an install CD that can set up a bootable system on Apple 
> powerpc hardware. This may be useful to people trying to set up new 
> machines. An ISO is here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110116.iso.bz2

The installer claims that the current "partitioning scheme" (MBR) isn't
bootable on PowerPC. If it is correct, we will have to manually
partition things from a shell, right?
-- 
Torfinn