From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 26 04:00:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14044106564A for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dgoodwin@cs.dal.ca) Received: from sxt-sm-1.ucis.dal.ca (SXT-SM-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca [129.173.5.72]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B998FC08 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.195] (hlfxns0188w-142068041095.pppoe-dynamic.High-Speed.ns.bellaliant.net [142.68.41.95]) (authenticated bits=0) by sxt-sm-1.ucis.dal.ca (8.14.2+Sun/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o1Q3l4lP010960 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:47:19 -0400 (AST) Message-Id: <17EBB85F-9FD7-48DC-94D1-E358C6F3CD9E@cs.dal.ca> From: David Goodwin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:47:04 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Cc: Subject: ppc and Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:00:02 -0000 I've got an iMac G3, and have gotten past a number of difficulties/ First. Freebsd 8 stopped loading at acd0 . Found a blog somewhere that mentioned set hint.pcib.2.skipslot=14 then I went many rounds before I figured out that I needed to pre-partition the drive so that the installer labeler could see the slices no auto slicing here I created a small partition for OS X and put the loader file at root there then turned off auto-boot? using nvram auto-boot?=false getting docs installed involved mounting cd1 after the install and going through all the folders on cd1 that required the index file for the 2nd and 3rd cd's (which the installer never called for. Every install attempt simply listed everything that couldn't be installed. sources installed just fine used portsnap for my ports distribution ok now I am into something like my 7th install, and here's the rub every time I try to install xorg, After nearly 24 hours of compiling, the machine freezes and in about half the attempts, it has ruined the btree for usr and sometimes for tmp as well Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Right now I am waiting for portsnap to finish its extraction. I have downloaded the contents of the everything directory form x.org and will try installing that for this next attempt Cheers to all from Nova Scotia, East Coast Canada David Goodwin 56 year old Computer Science Undergrad Dalhousie University dgoodwin@cs.dal.ca