Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:41:56 -0800 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Robin Stevens <voltechs@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) Message-ID: <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Robin, > Partitions: > 4.00 MBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for /boot > 256.00 MBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for swap > *.00 GBs of HSF+ (Mac OS Extended) for / (root) > > So I'll have three partitions. I think that should be enough. I use an OSX install to re-partition a system, and to set up OSX so that I can boot into that, and also use that to copy the FreeBSD loader to the root directory so it can be read from the loader. > I've got 6.2 iso on a CD-R, and I'll be booting off that from the mac > (either with the 'C' key or via OpenFirmware) That's the next step once the re-partitioning has been done. > Once there, I will follow the instructions on screen, and partition ( > apparently I do it again here? I'm not sure, maybe its just telling > FreeBSD which partitions to use ) my / (root). That's right. The fastest way is to dump all the filesystems onto a single disk partition, and use another one for swap. Much like what you have above without the /boot partition. > Then I guess I need to drop down into 'disklabel' and tell it to use > my swap partition as the swap. I'm not sure how to accomplish this > without interrupting the installation process. Tips/explainations on > this would be great. Shouldn't need to do that: the partition can be marked as 'swap' in sysinstall. > What do you all think? Let us know how it goes. I think I have the exact same config (400MHz G4), so should be able to help out if there are any h/w issues. later, Peter.help
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