Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:03:27 +0200 From: Jochen Fahrner <freebsd@fahrners.de> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation fails after creating disklabel Message-ID: <6AB5FC9B-EECF-40AB-8610-254AA42A6BD3@fahrners.de> In-Reply-To: <F1C3EDFE-81B7-4FF7-88C8-70D4CDF4FA81@fahrners.de> References: <F1C3EDFE-81B7-4FF7-88C8-70D4CDF4FA81@fahrners.de>
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Hi, > > After creating the partitions the installation aborts with the > following error message: > > "Error mounting /dev/ad0s5 on /mnt: Operation not permitted" I've got it! Disk partitioning works not the same way as on i386 platforms. The normal way is to have "slices" (created by fdisk), each slice divided into "partitions" (using disklabel). On FreeBSD PPC (Mac only?) disklabel cannot divide slices into partitions. Each slice can only have 1 partition. So one has to setup the whole partition layout with Mac OS disk utility, and then create the correct partition in each slice using disklabel. I think this should be explained somewhere in the install documentation. Jochen
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