Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:05:26 +0000 From: Ananda Samaddar <ananda.samaddar@vfemail.net> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Message-ID: <20090227000526.0e6e7d92@ananda-desktop> In-Reply-To: <49A71EF4.5090203@freebsd.org> References: <20090226191342.52d4a36b@ananda-desktop> <49A71EF4.5090203@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:00:04 -0600 Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > While the installer does not currently provide a partitioning > mechanism or bootloader installation facility, the operating system > itself does have this capability, and you can also do it by hand > (e.g. from OS X). The gpart utility is capable of partioning APM > disks from the command line, and there is a boot loader image > (/boot/boot1.hfs) available on -CURRENT that you can dd to an extra > 800 K partition to get a boot sector that OF will understand. You can > also partition from OS X and copy the loader (/boot/loader) to an HFS > partition at that time. I run Debian on an ibook already so I'm presuming it's similar thing to what they term a 'New World Boot partition' when you talk about a 'small partition'. Also can partitions that have been created under Linux be converted by the installer to UFS2? > This is remedied in -CURRENT and will be merged to -STABLE in a week > and a half, barring any reports of problems. So this will be merged into 7.0 as a compile time option for the kernel? Does the supplied GCC support Altivec and if so can ports be recompiled for Altivec support? thanks, Ananda
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