Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:42:44 -0800 From: "Robin Stevens" <voltechs@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.2 on PowerPC 7400 (G4) Message-ID: <8b25751b0711070842s3991b2d2yc1443e5067605508@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org> References: <8b25751b0711051115t4e592458n929b57ee021467b1@mail.gmail.com> <4730C384.1000807@freebsd.org>
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Hello again. Thank you all for your help! When I got home, I reformatted my drives, and partitioned into 3 sections: swap UFS root HSF+ Mac OS X Extended+Journalized. well, needless to say, that didn't seem to work. After it was all installed, I couldn't mount those partitions from OS X. The weird thing was that I couldn't mount root. Swap seemed to be ok. So, I went into Disk Utility, and wiped root. Made sure it was still HSF+, and rebooted. I tried installing FreeBSD again, and it went smoothly. When I came back into OS X, there was nothing in root. It was completely empty. Why!!?!? I mean, the installation went all the way through. How could it be empty? Grr this is frustrating. I tried the same thing with Peter's miniinstall, 6.2, and 7.0 -SNAPSHOT. Same results. What am I possibly doing wrong? I tried pretty much every combination between UFS and HSF+. Thanks guys :) -- Robin On 11/6/07, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. >home | help
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