From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 30 22:41:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D9316A41C; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0998043D1F; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j5UMfNm6010187; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:41:24 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:41:22 -0400 To: grehan@freebsd.org, Dario Freni , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.2 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:25 -0000 At 8:03 AM +1000 7/1/05, Peter Grehan wrote: > > Hi guys, I've just installed FreeBSD on an external hard drive. > > You know, I was too lazy to reformat everything, so I recycled > > an old 6Gig harddrive thanks to an external box. You can find > > a mini-guide at: > > >> http://tinyurl.com/b7s8u > > Great work Dario ! I'm looking forward to the FreeSBIE/ppc > live CD :) Indeed. The more ppc users, the merrier! I also took an external firewire drive, and used Apple's disk utility app to create a bunch of partitions on it. Apparently the utility decides to create an additional tiny partition between each partition that I actually asked it to create, which means I ended up with a lot of partitions. So my list includes: Intended-Use Partition FreeSpace ------------ --------- --------- ?? da0s9 262144 blocks (128MB) MacOS 10.4 da0s10 36647736 blocks (17894MB) ?? da0s11 17408 blocks (8MB) / da0s12 3254152 blocks (1588MB) ?? da0s13 17408 blocks (8MB) /usr da0s14 5749760 blocks (2807MB) ?? da0s15 17408 blocks (8MB) /usr/obj da0s16 6798336 blocks (3319MB) The thing is, I actually have more partitions than that. MacOS sees them all, but FreeBSD only lists the first 16? It happens that most of the later partitions are meant for other OS's anyway, so this isn't much of a problem for me. Just wanted to mention it. Also, what does sysinstall run to look at these partitions? I tried 'bsdlabel' to read the list of partitions, but all it would say was: "a -m option must be specified" -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu