Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 10:58:42 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPC miniinst.iso available Message-ID: <41DC8D42.6070000@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <16860.2359.646545.119336@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <41D4B6BD.3050705@freebsd.org> <20050101213630.GA3034@flow.eu.org> <20050101223317.GA6970@moof.catpipe.net> <41D75B55.2090502@freebsd.org> <20050102115505.GA28305@moof.catpipe.net> <41D93EFB.5050104@freebsd.org> <16860.2359.646545.119336@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> > Alpha uses native MBR slices/BSD partitions ala FreeBSD/i386. > > For the boot disk, the alpha uses native BSD partitions just like > Tru64 with no x86 MBR or slices. There are all kinds of restrictions, > like "a" must be root and must be the first partition on the disk. > For non-boot disks, it can use other partitioning schemes, just like > any other FreeBSD platform. Oops, OK. Sounds like sparc64. > What's wrong with just using the native Apple parition table for boot > disks on PPC? Too few available paritions, what with all the driver > and patch partitions? Not really, since you have to re-partition in any case. I thought it might be a bit easier to only create a single extra partition, and then subdivide that in sysinstall. later, Peter.
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