From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 09:51:31 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 C3FEF1065679 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:51:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f14.google.com (mail-bw0-f14.google.com [209.85.218.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F8358FC0C for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:51:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcotrillo@gmail.com) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so70335bwz.19 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:51:30 -0800 (PST) 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=fRdtozBvbzHE3RhsBuVZ7cLt++qSg6+PagFpMjGKySw=; b=b38/wsFhubbITOcuEdy4ErkP8KWtJpQfN9183XuCbGFvsw2KNBCsiq0FLswUa9WHKM jcKNdPh+hOR2JV1dtY4vd04gpfB9TecobaTRZzHyJ0bM96++KJZLB5q1qTHfRtbKPREu 0EqKPOncPGYfB/AeVD9aqCNeOQKQNk7tIHsvc= 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=OIRbXsMLVqPGj8qFlQNVVHI6ShtAQCLRTuoj9kzvR/5BwxLUEwU19dIeyfTjTW3UvN GYR821OQp8oUw7Vf/9jRSbEL0K9f1tNR0SVuHlyvTB8CYFdjyu2JvxRQxofJeZAcG16T vckjn9/GvlpjZBjAaeeOjcuez0jUK4lSK7Uzk= Received: by 10.86.92.9 with SMTP id p9mr473857fgb.15.1232356871272; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.4.18 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:21:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:21:11 +0100 From: "Marco Trillo" To: blubaustin In-Reply-To: <21537032.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <21537032.post@talk.nabble.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMac G3 Partition 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: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0000 Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:01 AM, blubaustin wrote: > > Hi, I have an IMac G3 600Mhz, 512mb Ram, 40GB hd, Ati Rage 128 Ultra Pro > 16mb. I was wondering how do I pre-partition the hard drive for freebsd? > read that it has to be prepartioned because FDISK doesn't work. I tried > using pdisk on NETBSD, and got it partitoned but I got stuck when I had to > create an FSTAB since... There are various options available: - If you use NetBSD's pdisk tool, you simply need to create some partitions for FreeBSD (for example with type Apple_UNIX_SVR2). You do not need to create filesystems from NetBSD or to create an fstab file in NetBSD -- the FreeBSD installer does all of this. When you boot the FreeBSD installer you can select the newly created partitions to install FreeBSD. - If you have Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X installation media, you can use "Drive Setup" (for Mac OS 9) or "Disk Utility" (for Mac OS X). With these tools you can create the partitions. Any partition type can be used (HFS, UFS, etc.), as FreeBSD doesn't care about the type and will reformat them with its own filesystem. However the "Drive Setup" tool is more flexible and will allow to select the "A/UX" partition type (equivalent to Apple_UNIX_SVR2 in pdisk), which can be used to avoid Mac OS messing with the FreeBSD partitions . Hope that helps Marco