From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 3 20:25:36 2004 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 C893816A4CE; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:25:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ssa9.serverconfig.com (ssa9.serverconfig.com [209.51.129.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8729743D2D; Wed, 3 Mar 2004 20:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barry@yepthatsme.com) Received: from dsl027-161-197.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.161.197] helo=[192.168.1.3]) by ssa9.serverconfig.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AykQQ-0000fT-19; Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:25:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v612) In-Reply-To: References: <91CEB172-6D1B-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> <40469783.7030404@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Barry Hawkins Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 23:25:31 -0500 To: FreeBSD PowerPC , Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.612) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ssa9.serverconfig.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - yepthatsme.com Subject: Re: Questions regarding installation 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, 04 Mar 2004 04:25:36 -0000 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