Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:47:50 +0100 From: Thomas Fritz <tf@slash10.net> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ethernet (gem0) not working during installation of FreeBSD-8.0 on a G5 Message-ID: <7c8efa20379bd22992165f5f5aa3c821@gamma.slash10.net> In-Reply-To: <4B312385.4040507@freebsd.org> References: <7372dc4321becba9b22a1511fb089af1@gamma.slash10.net> <5d02ca30a4afcf9acd030c0d6b3b430c@gamma.slash10.net> <4B312385.4040507@freebsd.org>
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Ok. But there is no gpart binary in the holographic shell. Can I mount it somehow from the 8.0-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1? On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:52:37 +1300, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > You can use gpart from the command line to partition the disk. Something > like this: > > For example, to install the bootloader and make a 10G partition on disk > ad0: > > gpart add -s 800K -t '!Apple_Bootstrap' ad0 > dd if=/boot/boot1.hfs of=/dev/ad0sXX > gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ad0 > newfs /dev/ad0sXX > > There should be a new version of sysinstall capable of doing this before > 8.1, but for now you will have to muck about with this by hand. > -Nathan > > Thomas Fritz wrote: >> Ok. I got that working. It seems, that the autoselect of gem0 does not >> work >> properly. >> So I set it manually in the shell with 'ifconfig gem0 media 10baseT/UTP'. >> >> But I am still having difficulties. The partitioning does not work. I >> read >> already, that this is a known problem, but I couldn't find a solution so >> far. >> >> Thanks for any help in advance. >> Thomas >> >> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:13 +0100, Thomas Fritz <tf@slash10.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi there! >>> >>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE on a 1.8GHz G5. >>> Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the ethernet >>> connection. DHCP gets no answer, setting the IP-address >>> manually works, but there is no traffic on the wire. >>> Anyone else experiencing problems like this? >>> >>> Thanks in advance >>> Thomas >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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