From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 4 01:48:16 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 85D8533E for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 01:48:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50F8414C1 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2014 01:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA0B920B51 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:41:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from web1 ([10.202.2.211]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 03 Jan 2014 20:41:01 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mailcan.com; h= message-id:from:to:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:in-reply-to:references:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh= B18mwRYiTF30hZLm2GGirUKmEZ4=; b=XjMlm3wRh45OkmjGQS5S4X9kVZivdOb5 +1KzuR0PEAMjku/Z6cDn8I3qFsMfH5C6njDLCNc7NSozSKcv7ex2CS94X1YQcEip JL96PvpR0JOEdqJUS0vhiGqGerv8VVVM+RLly/gX7BYVDT5BC+Y5BtdVoG9EYtuc +F1OXAm3b7s= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=B18mwRYiTF30hZLm2GGirUKmEZ4=; b=MuX /xhRqxQOHSVzHscZCQzKqv8EmdpvEnkYJ/NGDJbTQfEP9xrlVDBXC/rl3t6tmI1p uBjSYKS9Sadb1rhNotzGiKCpSlmtneG6jrWI14J4yplvulE7Y6gCJVO1jieXEVTG Pp3anRJ4aqEAgP2FRMYxBHn2K2tqr/4YOrDEO8qs= Received: by web1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id 746B1F002E0; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 20:41:01 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1388799661.21741.66383497.2BE461E1@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: KbBKZLDEdhzE9zY3FkLSs6UrpZsI92tIr4h5oR/pFwE9 1388799661 From: precutcolours@mailcan.com To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - html In-Reply-To: <52C6C6A5.1020404@freebsd.org> References: <1388713046.8058.65995889.43FA6F1D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <52C6288F.7050106@freebsd.org> <1388742923.13075.66094133.4ECA9B2B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <52C6C6A5.1020404@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Install Tips for Newbie with FreeBSD 10 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 01:41:01 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 01:48:16 -0000 Nathan you are helpful, prompt, and appreciated. GPT allows the hard disk to boot other systems. They have their own BIOS/firmware needs. Also, I've dealt with APM on *nix, and it's too much pain and suffering. Never mind Windows or end users. Newer Macs use GPT too. I suppose with $HOME and /tmp and caches in RAM, I could install BSD wholesale to the 12 GB flash stick, though upgrades would be an all-day chore given the awful writing speed and compilation. I had the impression ZFS support was more mature? It sounds like much in BSD still doesn't quite work with ZFS, if the fs itself works fine. Almost to a point of best avoided for exotic setups like mine on odd CPUs like mine? Do you have tips for UFS on the flash stick? I know exactly what to do using ext4 on Linux, but not really with UFS. Matter of fact, for ext4 I do e.g. mkfs.ext4 -v -t ext4 -b 2048 -i 16384 -I 128 -m 1 -O ^has_journal -L MyDiskName /dev/sdxN with /etc/mke2fs.conf features = extent,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize auto_64-bit_support = 1 Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html