Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:23:05 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <peterg@ptree32.com.au> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning new laptop Message-ID: <3D41D9D9.A5175B30@ptree32.com.au> References: <20020726170657.A12012@hda.hda.com>
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Hi Peter, > I have a new G4 laptop. Should I partition it to leave a FreeBSD > boot partition? Or boot/usr/var partitions? My guess for how things are going to work, is that FreeBSD would live in slices inside one of the alternate partition types, e.g. 'A/UX User', with the loader being placed in a HFS+ boot partition so OpenFirmware can access it. In theory you could boot from the net and have the entire disk as raw BSD disklabel'd, but that seems dangerous, just like it is on x86. So, I'd say do a standard MacOS or OS/X install and carve off a few Gb as 'A/UX User'. NetBSD has a useful partitioning HOW-TO, although they use multiple partitions, which I don't think is necessary for FreeBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/partitioning.html later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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