Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:12:33 +1100 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: Nick Coleman <ncoleman@internode.on.net> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: re: Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4 [long] Message-ID: <1223529153.15248.200.camel@horst-tla> In-Reply-To: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net> References: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net>
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--=-pdX/IZ69LyL+iurpvoXS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 11:01 +0800, Nick Coleman wrote: > FWIW, I'm brand new to FreeBSD and Mac, so none of this is gospel, just=20 > what worked for me. It took me about 4 or 5 attempts before I got it to=20 > work. This is for 7.0 by the way. Welcome to FreeBSD, and welcome to Macintosh. > I ended up spending quite a few days reading various sites to get it to=20 > work, but successfully in the end. I found the netBSD instructions for=20 > the PPC to be quite helpful, and Peter Grehan's instructions too. That's odd, I found them to be a tad skeleton. > I will go into a fair bit of detail for those reading this later, might=20 > save a few days of research. This is what I did: >=20 > From what I understand, you need to use mac-fdisk (Debian, Mac OS X; I=20 > think it might even just be a frontend to parted) or parted. I used=20 > parted for a PPC build, in a Ubuntu live CD session. Ubuntu's latest=20 > releases don't support PPC, but their 6.x build is still maintained and=20 > does support it. I downloaded the live CD (700MB just to run parted!).=20 > Perhaps you could do it easier with a smaller build of a live CD, but=20 > I have a fast connection and by that point (tearing out hair!) couldn't=20 > be bothered faffing around to find something else. (BTW, does Gparted=20 > support ppc? I didn't think it did, so I didn't explore it any further=20 > other than reading their website intro.) I eventually used Finnix for this at the suggestion of Richard DeLaurell. > So that's it. I ended up doing a minimum install because I got sick of=20 > downloading all those packages just for the install to fail. I ended up=20 > with a minimum just so I could get to a shell after rebooting. >=20 > On a side note, by this stage, Open Firmware and I have quite a close=20 > relationship. :). Open Firmware is my bro'. > To be honest, I was surprised at how little info there is out on the=20 > net. I found only 3 (!) sites with good practical info. I wonder if=20 > it is just that there are very few people actually installing FreeBSD=20 > for the first time on a G4. Perhaps just you and me... :) You and Me Against The World comes to mind. Would you be interested in improving the PowerPC port page on the FreeBSD wiki with this information, with me ? :) It would definitely help other newcomers. -- Horst. --=-pdX/IZ69LyL+iurpvoXS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkjtksEACgkQRtTtv0BbTe5PwwCfW3bY0S2mIhzIVFUZpxu5S9NW yiwAoKOarrlxekYlCqI3oe2m3SLgld5B =uN2i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pdX/IZ69LyL+iurpvoXS--
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