From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 05:41:20 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 CD58216A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:41:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2944B43D31 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:41:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from [203.144.31.113] (CPE-31-113.dsl.onthenet.net [203.144.31.113]) j0O5fJnP033425; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:41:19 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41F48BBB.3080708@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:46:35 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org> <41F47C1C.2060608@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 05:41:20 -0000 > 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'm very happy to see it getting some normal use :) > I'd also like to try OpenBSD/macppc on it, just to see how > close that comes to working. NetBSD definitely runs on it, and I'm pretty sure Open would as well. >> 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). The best way is to have a partition type that OSX doesn't understand, but as you've seen Apple have dumbed down the disk utility so you can't set the type to other than HFS+ or UFS. At some point I'll bring the pdisk utility into the tree, and that could be used to change partition types from a bootable CD. later, Peter.