Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 09:47:16 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org>, grehan@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) Message-ID: <200507010947.17929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050701015730.GD4460@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <aba9cfad.14ba41c9.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <FE6532C0-4EC5-4871-A91B-1D967FB3A5DD@FreeBSD.org> <20050701015730.GD4460@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Thursday 30 June 2005 09:57 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >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 <architecture> option must be specified" > > > > We don't support bsd labels on ppc.. I had patches that I sent phk to > > make them work, about a year ago, but he said he'd rather not have > > them supported, because of their limits. > > At this point with FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-RELEASE happening we can't stick our > heads in the sand anymore. What type of labels do we support and which > non-Sysinstall programs does one use when adding a 2nd disk to their > system? GEOM_APPLE knows how to read the Apple labels, so I think what happens is that you have to create the partitions in OS X and then sysinstall will see them via GEOM_APPLE so that you can newfs them and stick bits on them. I believe that gpt(8) can be used on all of our archs for non-boot disks, and GPT is a much better format than bsdlabel, MBR, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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