From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 25 11:00:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FD451065675 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tony.theodore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f191.google.com (mail-qy0-f191.google.com [209.85.221.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87858FC12 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tony.theodore@gmail.com) Received: by qyk29 with SMTP id 29so2783843qyk.3 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:00:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kTaYEfYYq6DTDkdqJ11PPAXRpfqlAj2M+V4vM0G3fSQ=; b=Z5sst70X1CL58H2kmcRN58dV4aNr82ailgCwveyGki8EKO6EYudGxuenB4VAYsABLe 4QhWUh8RUIdENnn8ZFTn2sCbFbH1s/P9RG714b8zAAjrV/52Ph4PAt5gNaJ4CXhCa7JU PnATUjIrJWXWW3De1hPOu0V0VJd9pwzdEZqO4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=koXJVQ0SqgHE67+i+2R5w+9JNYCQ87jKvkZOPFhv4K/CvquQKNx0ctxZAp9qYu6iHh zg5jov1O13cpWNI6l5aligrZ+AF5VUdBWHhiq3oTBsINZN3OdqhqFkgPN6zVFYao7+CF XSRafSWkjGIFT4mNh1hfysZq7EN2rK7Fi8TzY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: tony.theodore@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.60.142 with SMTP id p14mr4307987qah.20.1248517606457; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:26:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:26:46 +1000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 68dfd1750c1b4e80 Message-ID: <22166b750907250326w4d490c76k70f9f43b0c3b51e2@mail.gmail.com> From: Tony Theodore To: samankaya@netscape.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partitioning disks on PPC for FreeBSD, installer crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 11:00:08 -0000 > > 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