From owner-freebsd-ppc Fri Jul 26 16: 5:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E4D37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:05:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gt3.OntheNet.com.au (nt.com.au [203.13.70.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1F243E65 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peterg@ptree32.com.au) Received: from ptree32.com.au (CPE-203-45-246-228.qld.bigpond.net.au [203.45.246.228]) by gt3.OntheNet.com.au (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6QN87b28320; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:08:08 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3D41D9D9.A5175B30@ptree32.com.au> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:23:05 +1000 From: Peter Grehan Organization: Ptree32 Pty Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Dufault Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning new laptop References: <20020726170657.A12012@hda.hda.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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