From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 05:22:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01F7716A4CE; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:22:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CD643D41; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:22:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0O5MLKw003307; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:22:22 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <41F47C1C.2060608@freebsd.org> References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org> <41F47C1C.2060608@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:22:19 -0500 To: Peter Grehan From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - dmesg.boot! X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:22:24 -0000 At 2:39 PM +1000 1/24/05, Peter Grehan wrote: > > > Well, I did get it going. There are a lot of things that I > > am tempted to do with it, > > Let us in on your plans! At the moment I'm trying to get the >latest Xorg server port running. Nothing too exciting. Now that I know I *can* install it, I might re-parition the whole thing to have multiple FreeBSD installs. That has saved me several times when developing on i386 and sparc64! And I want to set up some of my "standard programs" (which doesn't include X...), like bash, rsync, and subversion. And there's some other changes I'm working on, where I would like to at least test-compile on PPC before I do anything with them. I'd also like to try OpenBSD/macppc on it, just to see how close that comes to working. And of course, I also have some MacOS-related things to test. This Mac-mini is in my office, and if it works out well then I'll probably buy another one to replace a G4 cube that I am still using for some things at home. >>Oh, one more thing I noticed. When I reboot back into MacOS 10, >>it still shows the two freebsd partitions, and it claims they >>are formatted as "MacOS Extended (Journalled)". [...] > > It shouldn't matter too much. FreeBSD ignores the partition >type and doesn't change it. Actually, what I'm the most worried about is that the MacOS 10 side thinks that is a perfectly nice, empty, usable partition. Is there any good way to hide those partitions from MacOS 10? (I guess I could just unmount them at startup). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu