From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 21:38:04 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C111065672 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:38:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (eterpe-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A3A38FC0A for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:38:03 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by eterpe-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0LUR00JCMW3EJH10@eterpe-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:38:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([84.48.120.32]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0LUR00GIBW3EFHI0@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:38:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:38:02 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Message-id: <20111116223802.1985dbf8.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <20111116203633.6ab383bb@atom.dino.sk> References: <20111115101601.2f9fe255@atom.dino.sk> <20111116042035.GB22968@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au> <20111116203633.6ab383bb@atom.dino.sk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.2 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: FreeBSD on 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: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:38:04 -0000 On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:36:33 +0100 Milan Obuch wrote: > > Well, to be honest, this is not my main issue. I am going to create new > disk from scratch and my small experience tells partitioning should be > done from Mac OS X Disk Utility, at least first part. I just wanted to > know if anybody uses such setup and have some tips for this. To make room for FreeBSD, see the thread titled "iBook G4: shrink OSX to make room for FreeBSD?" on this mailing list. If you are installing a recent FreeBSd (I used 9.0-RC2) the FreeBSD installer should take care of partitioning free space, including a boot partition (apple-boot) with the boot loader. Automatic partitioning didn't work for me, so I used manual instead. worked for me, YMMV. One small caveat: gpart is currently unable to create a slice 4 ("ada0s4") on my iBook hard drive, the reason for that is currently unknown. More in another thread. -- Torfinn