Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:26:46 +1000 From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> To: samankaya@netscape.net Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning disks on PPC for FreeBSD, installer crashes Message-ID: <22166b750907250326w4d490c76k70f9f43b0c3b51e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com>
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> > Each time I try to use (C)reate a slice I get a message on the screen saying that I have to do this on a Master Partition.... > I think there are several partitioning schemes: Apple (open firmware), GPT (EFI), and MBR (BIOS). FreeBSD supports either MBR or GPT, but I'm not sure if sysinstall will recognise anything other than MBR. Have you tried the "use entire disk" option or do you need to keep other partitions? Otherwise, I'd try using Apple's disk utility, or something like gparted, to convert the partition scheme first. Tony
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