Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:17:12 -0400 From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: grehan@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) Message-ID: <FE6532C0-4EC5-4871-A91B-1D967FB3A5DD@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p06230910beea21981588@[128.113.24.47]> References: <aba9cfad.14ba41c9.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <p06230910beea21981588@[128.113.24.47]>
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Hi, On Jun 30, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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 <architecture> option must be specified" We don't support bsd labels on ppc.. I had patches that I sent phk to make them work, about a year ago, but he said he'd rather not have them supported, because of their limits. -- Suleiman Souhlal | ssouhlal@vt.edu The FreeBSD Project | ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org
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