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Date:      Sat, 1 Nov 2008 03:33:14 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ross Gohlke <ross@grinz.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on my old rusty PowerBook 12"
Message-ID:  <20081101033314.GA53970@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4908C120.3010508@grinz.com>
References:  <20081029190724.GH1165@hoeg.nl> <4908C120.3010508@grinz.com>

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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:01:36PM -0500, Ross Gohlke wrote:
> Do you have an old Mac OS X Installer disc? If so, it contains Disk 
> Utility, which will allow you to partition the drive, creating a small 
> HFS partition and as many UFS(2) partitions as you want. You will need 
> to know the identities of each partition when you get to sysinstall. You 
> can do this in Disk Utility by selecting each new partition and clicking 
> Info.
> 
> Older versions (10.1, 10.2) of OS X might use UFS, I'm pretty sure newer 
> versions use UFS2. Regardless, Disk Utility simply calls it UNIX File 
> System.
> 
> This is the first I've heard of ADB support, and I don't own a USB 
> keyboard; I used Disk Utility in Tiger (10.4) to create a dual-boot 
> drive, so the HFS partition wasn't a problem.

This sounds like fun.  I'd like to be able to dual-boot between OSX and
FreeBSD.  Is this procedure documented somewhere (wiki maybe)?  Looks
like I have to create three partitions: 800K strapping one, OSX HFS+,
FreeBSD UFS2.  Does the loader in 800K needs any treatment to see both
OSes and be able to select which one to boot?

Thanks.

./danfe



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