From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 01:30:32 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 1CCB016A41C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 01:30:32 +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 CF4D843D1F for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 01:30:31 +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 j611UTQJ009680; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:30:30 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050630224706.GA29355@cvs.freesbie.org> References: <20050630224706.GA29355@cvs.freesbie.org> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:30:28 -0400 To: Dario Freni 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: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org 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: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:30:32 -0000 At 12:47 AM +0200 7/1/05, Dario Freni wrote: >On Thu, Jun 30, 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >> 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) > >Why are they starting from 9? Because I skipped over the first eight... :-) I think I have some extra partitions before these because I said "install drivers for MacOS 9". This external hard disk is still (occasionally) moved between machines, so that seemed like a good idea at the time. But now that I think of it, I believe that just last week I switched over the last person on campus who was still running MacOS 9 campus... When I run the DiskUtility.app on MacOS 10, that partition on da0s10 is the first partition which the application displays. I wonder if those small partitions include meta-data for the real partitions which follow them. > > 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" > >...and -m powerpc says "not supported" Yeah. I did a 'strings' on the executable, and it didn't seem to include anything like 'ppc' or 'powerpc'. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu