Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:36:26 +0300 From: Michael Dexter <dexter@ambidexter.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <a0621021ebea9344b223b@[192.168.1.100]> In-Reply-To: <p06210207bea92dc8c2cb@[128.113.24.47]> References: <a06210262bea18ec9f0f6@[192.168.1.101]> <427D6568.3010505@freebsd.org> <a0621020bbea6115e61ab@[192.168.1.100]> <p06210207bea92dc8c2cb@[128.113.24.47]>
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>>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. Hmm. Has anyone experimented with yar's port of Apple HFS code in this context? Tiger introduces case-sensitivity (don't laugh) and perhaps a re-synced version of his kernel module could be built-in to give HFS-X bootability and a chance of the target-disk-mode formatting trick to work. http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ Michael.
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