Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:03:56 +1000 From: Horst =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Burkhardt III <horst@sxemacs.org> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Extreme difficulty with partitioning on mac powerpc g4. Message-ID: <1222945436.15248.103.camel@horst-tla>
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Good evening.
I'm having some significant trouble using the install.iso for ppc. This
trouble being (with both 7.0-RELEASE and 7.1-BETA) that the installer
insists on doing its partitioning with fdisk. I have used linux fdisk to
make the partition tables up, and failing this attempted some semblance
of partitioning with Mac OS X Disk Utility (an idea taken from OpenBSD
install docs for ppc). I also attempted to use GParted, and none of
these attempts at partitioning are being picked up.
It all comes back to me hitting "custom install" as I always do, and the
damned partitioner, and me trying to do _anything_ results in a SIG11
(Segmentation Violation i believe).
a) Is there a known workaround?
` - b) If there is, why are there no docs anywhere on the internet?
` - c) If (following either assistance or dumb luck) I get it
working, would a "walkthrough" be welcomed? (see lack of docs)
|- d) If no known workaround, are there any suggestions from the ppc
devs and users on this ML?
Extra info: this is a Power Mac G4 (ADC/Gigabit Ethernet) with two
harddrives: one 40GB and one 60GB.
My intended partition layout is:
/----------------
IDE0 Master: 40GB
-----------------
Partition 0: (smallest amount possible) (whatever's needed to allow
autoboot into FreeBSD, I've
nuked OS X)
Partition 1: (the remainder) FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint /
IDE0 Slave : 60GB
-----------------
Partition 0: 2GB FreeBSD swap
Partition 1: 58GB FreeBSD UFS2, mountpoint /usr
\----------------
This is my first attempt at FreeBSD on a ppc, doubly so for a mac. I'm
not, however, completely new to FreeBSD, I've run it before.
Any help anyone here could provide in this matter would be much
appreciated, and I will help as I can in procuring information for you
if you require.
I apologise for the incoherence of this message, I'm quite distressed by
this.
--Horst.
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