Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:21:11 +0100 From: "Marco Trillo" <marcotrillo@gmail.com> To: blubaustin <blubaustin@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IMac G3 Partition Message-ID: <b9c23c9f0901190121w67c0d08fuffa50874284c019c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <21537032.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21537032.post@talk.nabble.com>
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Hi, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:01 AM, blubaustin <blubaustin@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, I have an IMac G3 600Mhz, 512mb Ram, 40GB hd, Ati Rage 128 Ultra Pro > 16mb. I was wondering how do I pre-partition the hard drive for freebsd? > read that it has to be prepartioned because FDISK doesn't work. I tried > using pdisk on NETBSD, and got it partitoned but I got stuck when I had to > create an FSTAB since... There are various options available: - If you use NetBSD's pdisk tool, you simply need to create some partitions for FreeBSD (for example with type Apple_UNIX_SVR2). You do not need to create filesystems from NetBSD or to create an fstab file in NetBSD -- the FreeBSD installer does all of this. When you boot the FreeBSD installer you can select the newly created partitions to install FreeBSD. - If you have Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X installation media, you can use "Drive Setup" (for Mac OS 9) or "Disk Utility" (for Mac OS X). With these tools you can create the partitions. Any partition type can be used (HFS, UFS, etc.), as FreeBSD doesn't care about the type and will reformat them with its own filesystem. However the "Drive Setup" tool is more flexible and will allow to select the "A/UX" partition type (equivalent to Apple_UNIX_SVR2 in pdisk), which can be used to avoid Mac OS messing with the FreeBSD partitions . Hope that helps Marco
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