From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 27 00:05:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115B5106566B for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ananda.samaddar@vfemail.net) Received: from mail.vfemail.net (authorized.vfemail.net [69.11.239.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB978FC0C for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ananda.samaddar@vfemail.net) Received: (qmail 93526 invoked by uid 0); 27 Feb 2009 00:05:28 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 93494, pid: 93523, t: 0.3049s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO ananda-desktop) (YW5hbmRhLnNhbWFkZGFyQHZmZW1haWwubmV0@NjkuMTEuMjM5LjY4) by mail.vfemail.net with ESMTPA; 27 Feb 2009 00:05:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:26 +0000 From: Ananda Samaddar To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090227000526.0e6e7d92@ananda-desktop> In-Reply-To: <49A71EF4.5090203@freebsd.org> References: <20090226191342.52d4a36b@ananda-desktop> <49A71EF4.5090203@freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Questions about FreeBSD on a Mac Mini X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:37 -0000 On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:04 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > While the installer does not currently provide a partitioning > mechanism or bootloader installation facility, the operating system > itself does have this capability, and you can also do it by hand > (e.g. from OS X). The gpart utility is capable of partioning APM > disks from the command line, and there is a boot loader image > (/boot/boot1.hfs) available on -CURRENT that you can dd to an extra > 800 K partition to get a boot sector that OF will understand. You can > also partition from OS X and copy the loader (/boot/loader) to an HFS > partition at that time. I run Debian on an ibook already so I'm presuming it's similar thing to what they term a 'New World Boot partition' when you talk about a 'small partition'. Also can partitions that have been created under Linux be converted by the installer to UFS2? > This is remedied in -CURRENT and will be merged to -STABLE in a week > and a half, barring any reports of problems. So this will be merged into 7.0 as a compile time option for the kernel? Does the supplied GCC support Altivec and if so can ports be recompiled for Altivec support? thanks, Ananda