Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:33:17 +0200 From: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> To: Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch> Cc: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) Message-ID: <20050630223317.GA29111@cvs.freesbie.org> In-Reply-To: <42C47188.5060006@pop.agri.ch> References: <aba9cfad.14ba41c9.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <20050630221635.GA29010@cvs.freesbie.org> <42C47188.5060006@pop.agri.ch>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 12:26:16AM +0200, Andreas Tobler wrote: > Hi Dario, >=20 > Dario Freni wrote: >=20 > >Today I made my first minimal iso in ppc :) but have no cd-rw to test > >it. Will buy a couple tomorrow. In the meantime I'm compiling some > >apps (argh! emacs port doesn't compile). I hope to have a test iso > >soon. > > > >Little update to the article. USB, sadly, works better than > >FireWire. When booting from FireWire i'm not able to make a > >buildworld. It exits really at *random* points with quite *random* > >error codes (96, 120, 223...). Absolutely no problem switching to USB > >(same box, it's a combo usb/fw external case). >=20 > How much RAM does your mini have ? I ask because my albook has 1GB and I= =20 > encountered similar failures, I also boot from fw. I replaced my fw case= =20 > and before I limited ram to 512MB (hw.physmem=3D512M) and built world.=20 > With current sources. Then I was able to buildworld again with full 1GB.= =20 > Well, I do not know yet what it was, the current sources or the fw case. Well, 1Gb. I was thinking about replacing it with the original 256Mb dimm, but I first tried switching to USB and it worked. Now I've got a fresh current from yesterday, I'll try rebuild everything tomorrow, booting from fw (I don't want to rebuild the world now as I need an already built one for FreeSBIE). Anyway, is USB2 supported? My box is attached directly to the mac mini, but I don't see any ehci output from kernel. Anyway, it's not so slow, I reached 7.0MB/s via scp. --=20 Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org) FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org) GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCxHMsymi72IiShysRAq2fAJ9cI5lw+WW3pWApMLFUj5pt3WMbhQCgz3AW ylyox8jWqFwiD4ZsycABvCk= =6SdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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