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Peter Grehan writes:
 > > What's wrong with just using the native Apple parition table for boot
 > > disks on PPC?  Too few available paritions, what with all the driver
 > > and patch partitions?
 > 
 >   Not really, since you have to re-partition in any case. I thought it
 > might be a bit easier to only create a single extra partition, and
 > then subdivide that in sysinstall.

I like your overlay install idea that you mentioned a while back.  If
I remember correctly, it some something like we install ourselves into
/FreeBSD on the normal MacOSX partition, and we automatically prepend
/FreeBSD to any name lookups just like the linuxulater prepends
/compat/linux.   Or maybe just chroot ourselves into /FreeBSD.

But that depends on having HFS in the base system.  Which might be a
good idea..

Drew