From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 08:04:04 2008 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 39080106568A for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:04:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBFC8FC0A for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:04:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so4325955wfg.7 for ; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:04:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=GCB5FtWKKcGT3VEbcdRoCKJWfN+DXP8xCv9mj/8KwVI=; b=bHWXyHHdCHR++RyfdmQTFU6lIbNsiK444kpMgABwszgZlS90DYcXUJx1+nQSMSPlTj LPIPY8x6sVtjIjBBDDpa8+0kBpUa18+OPmuRg0jhIOj3xdhPlyIyFtMXJBG3T3mOiBtb Ktz8nYI9nn19FR81ZDSTUttuw62Le3SIBDMbM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=qMXXhI6gOXEo+PmPByRmJWW20EdcOBhhGh5WVHFrFeAzkDJelAjQ+8ZiPHdAzInFKF jnrkrjYtkuOucWMYqdIug+qkbFeGljhrZtx+EjJfD60lWhWWkg1cumgdUlUsqMC8kr9y ukiFqbwITjXjQh4VvO1z3YP2HB1Sl2hdGv5Fw= Received: by 10.143.19.16 with SMTP id w16mr4159219wfi.223.1223539443703; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.89.18 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:04:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:04:03 +0200 From: "Marco Trillo" To: "Nick Coleman" In-Reply-To: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48ED741B.3000203@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4 [long] 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: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:04:04 -0000 Hi, On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Nick Coleman 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.