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>  >   Alpha uses native MBR slices/BSD partitions ala FreeBSD/i386.
> 
> For the boot disk, the alpha uses native BSD partitions just like
> Tru64 with no x86 MBR or slices.  There are all kinds of restrictions,
> like "a" must be root and must be the first partition on the disk.
> For non-boot disks, it can use other partitioning schemes, just like
> any other FreeBSD platform.

  Oops, OK. Sounds like sparc64.

> What's wrong with just using the native Apple parition table for boot
> disks on PPC?  Too few available paritions, what with all the driver
> and patch partitions?

  Not really, since you have to re-partition in any case. I thought it
might be a bit easier to only create a single extra partition, and
then subdivide that in sysinstall.

later,

Peter.