From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 16:00:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F6C116A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:00:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F0243D62 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j4CG0qwm006815; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:00:53 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <427D6568.3010505@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:00:52 -0400 To: Michael Dexter From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.4 cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:00:56 -0000 At 6:00 PM +0300 5/12/05, Michael Dexter wrote: > >Assumption: UFS2 under x86 will be the same as UFS2 under >PowerPC. Flawed? I am pretty sure that UFS2 embeds some endian-specific info, and thus you can't move it from a little-endian (i386) to a big-endian (PPC) platform. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu