Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:04:03 +0200 From: "Marco Trillo" <marcotrillo@gmail.com> To: "Nick Coleman" <ncoleman@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4 [long] Message-ID: <b9c23c9f0810090104q230f7722n448fb7b030416d04@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net> References: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net>
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Hi, On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Nick Coleman <ncoleman@internode.on.net> wrote: > From what I understand, you need to use mac-fdisk (Debian, Mac OS X; I think > it might even just be a frontend to parted) or parted. Actually the tool is called "pdisk", "mac-fdisk" is just a Debian rename for it (I don't know why). > PPC build, in a Ubuntu live CD session. Ubuntu's latest releases don't > support PPC, but their 6.x build is still maintained and does support it. > I downloaded the live CD (700MB just to run parted!). Hmm... an easier option is booting from the Mac OS X installation media. It contains a "Disk Utility" application that can be opened from the menu and can be used to create all the partitions -- and the tool is entirely graphical. It requires that the partitions be initially formated in either HFS (the Mac OS filesystem) or UFS; for the FreeBSD partition(s) either format can be used as they will be reformated later by sysinst using FreeBSD's own filesystems. For older Macs which come with Mac OS 9 media, a similar tool called "Drive setup" can be used. > [...] > On a side note, by this stage, Open Firmware and I have quite a close > relationship. :). Open Firmware is my bro'. :-) . Regards, Marco.
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