Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:25:31 -0500 From: Barry Hawkins <barry@yepthatsme.com> To: FreeBSD PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions regarding installation Message-ID: <F934F04C-6D93-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@yepthatsme.com> In-Reply-To: <D1E2C487-6D89-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> References: <91CEB172-6D1B-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> <40469783.7030404@freebsd.org> <D1E2C487-6D89-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com>
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On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:12 PM, Barry Hawkins wrote: > On Mar 3, 2004, at 9:42 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: > >> Hi Barry, >> >>> [0] http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html >> >> I've updated install.html to cover your questions. Also, I've >> put up a softlink which points to the latest distribution, and >> also updated that to a very recent one which includes libthr >> and Kauai ATA support. >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc-root-latest.tbz2 >> kernel >> loader >> >> later, >> >> Peter. >> >> > Peter, > I am attempting to create my installation CD in Panther (Mac OS > 10.3). Are there any caveats to be aware of in trying to do that? I > will be using mkisofs from fink, which is version 1.15.a39. When I > unzip ppc-root-latest.tbz2 using "tar -xjvf" (bzip2 Version 1.0.2) to > get the files for the minimal directory tree, I get errors that > concern me, like: > > ./usr/share/man/man8/NIS.8.gz > tar: ./usr/share/man/man8/NIS.8.gz: Cannot hard link to > `./usr/share/man/man8/yp.8.gz': (null) > ./usr/share/man/man8/rc.serial.8.gz > ./usr/share/man/man8/rc.shutdown.8.gz > ./usr/share/man/man8/nis.8.gz > tar: ./usr/share/man/man8/nis.8.gz: Cannot hard link to > `./usr/share/man/man8/yp.8.gz': (null) > > Hopefully I will get to a point of productivity soon. > It looks like I successfully made a CD, and it reads fine with the "dir cd:,\" command. Next question: how fast do you have to press that space bar? I am doing this on my Titanium PowerBook G4 500MHz circa March 2001, and I don't seem to be able to keep it from booting the kernel. I am pretty sure that I am down to less than 500 milliseconds between hitting enter on the boot command and hitting the space bar. Thanks, -- Barry C. Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.allthingscomputed.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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