From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 19:56:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A8D216A418 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:56:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from dommail.onthenet.com.au (dommail.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.70.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB7513C4BD for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:56:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from excfreebsd.hq.netapp.com (nat-198-95-226-228.netapp.com [198.95.226.228]) by dommail.onthenet.com.au (MOS 3.7.5a-GA) with ESMTP id DGZ28678 (AUTH peterg@ptree32.com.au); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 05:42:52 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:41:56 -0800 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Stevens References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: grehan@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:56:37 -0000 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.