Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 14:45:11 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Barry Hawkins <barry@yepthatsme.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions regarding installation Message-ID: <4046B457.6070202@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <F934F04C-6D93-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@yepthatsme.com> References: <91CEB172-6D1B-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> <40469783.7030404@freebsd.org> <D1E2C487-6D89-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@allthingscomputed.com> <F934F04C-6D93-11D8-8ED2-000A95A56C00@yepthatsme.com>
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Hi Barry >> ./usr/share/man/man8/NIS.8.gz >> tar: ./usr/share/man/man8/NIS.8.gz: Cannot hard link to Not sure why that happens, maybe something to do with OSX HFS ? But, it's only a man page so no real damage. > It looks like I successfully made a CD, and it reads fine with the "dir > cd:,\" command. Next question: how fast do you have to press that space > bar? I am doing this on my Titanium PowerBook G4 500MHz circa March > 2001, and I don't seem to be able to keep it from booting the kernel. I > am pretty sure that I am down to less than 500 milliseconds between > hitting enter on the boot command and hitting the space bar. Does the screen black and start printing out boot messages ? You may just be seeing the loader putting the kernel into memory. The screen should look something like (from an iMac): 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader load-size=7d222 adler32=876ab2f5 Loading ELF Console: OpenFirmware console FreeBSD/OpenFirmware/PowerPC bootstrap loader, Revision 0.1 (grehan@, Sun Jan 25 11:12:52 EST 2004) Memory: 98304KB Booted from: /pci/mac-io/ide@21000/disk@0 / /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x2e2408+0x74890 syms=[0x4+0x363b0+0x4+0x43d4f] Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 9 seconds... (and this is where you hit the space bar) Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help OK _ later, Peter.
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