Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:56:17 -0500 From: "David Frascone" <dave@frascone.com> To: "Marcel Moolenaar" <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: grehan@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on? Message-ID: <9cf5ced20712190556t19a13278p54671bd18d2ae902@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com> References: <9cf5ced20712131308j72173957u8656386d2330e982@mail.gmail.com> <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712131507o55377136w90a61c921bf1c106@mail.gmail.com> <9cf5ced20712131853r2c764c9bj3121235eef12cbb1@mail.gmail.com> <47621F28.6070703@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712140537i5438f99eia4bd3aa82585fa97@mail.gmail.com> <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org> <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com>
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Status Update: With everyone's help, I did manage to get my iBook booting to BSD (with manual intervention ;), and is even working as a NIS and amd client. So -- things are going VERY well. I was a little surprised, however, that there was no powerpc ports tree. Oh well, at least I have gcc and bash ;) -Dave On Dec 14, 2007 1:18 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Peter Grehan wrote: > > >>> Swap too? > > > > Yep, FreeBSD pays no attention to the type of partition other than > > listing it as available for use. > > This changes. Already with gpart you cannot make kernel dumps > on partitions that are not of type "freebsd-swap". In the > future we will probably have newfs(8) check the partition-type > in order to determine which file-system to create. The same > applies to fsck(8). > > Fortunately: the tools are there in FreeBSD to repartition and > change partition types. The only problem is that we don't have > them available during installation. > > It is my intend to have sysinstall switch to gpart on platforms > that most need it. However, it's not something that will happen > for 7.0-RELEASE... > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com > > >
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