From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 23 00:08:17 2011 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 CCD37106566C for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:08:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22B18FC18 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:08:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE81E58135 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:14 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id zA0IvRg12po2 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-68-88.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.68.88]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7859C58134 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:14 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <4D3B716D.8050605@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 18:08:13 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <4D38503C.5090805@freebsd.org> <20110123010651.6e7ab6d9.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20110123010651.6e7ab6d9.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: PowerPC installer X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:08:17 -0000 On 01/22/11 18:06, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:09:48 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > >> As part of my work on BSDInstall (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall), >> I've produced an install CD that can set up a bootable system on Apple >> powerpc hardware. This may be useful to people trying to set up new >> machines. An ISO is here: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110116.iso.bz2 > The installer claims that the current "partitioning scheme" (MBR) isn't > bootable on PowerPC. If it is correct, we will have to manually > partition things from a shell, right? No, just delete the existing partitioning and replace with APM. The installer knows what to do here. If you want to give FreeBSD a whole disk, the "Entire Disk" autopartitioning option will also do the right thing. -Nathan