From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 13:56:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02DEA16A417 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:56:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frascone@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C790813C468 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:56:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frascone@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so4904647waf.3 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:56:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=uVpi7wNkTdl6YDIgvjZV9bcFkKs7T6oh79o4yL/jYKQ=; b=THSOTEz4tTtbuzxnoknjwm4JHvs3YY3TCljL9roHsb+7px0tFOK58eGUBSAvwJxXaRmGb/IXBlG/HAFjjhYOQ0HGA4PV9lq6IqXzXngiulvfKxyOYWIlGA54uqV84yo7cZ8aEMh5USFDme6PI9FvrUm0Fx6kVohya7RX63kaOPM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=exVSriLmStIVgxUIa4doZ7wXBvasD1WIFXH9zOdKyCIfrcWYcUDAH9vQVOPeraEbpjKRiBtwCAFi+QE1svYmwgfXQIAkMn9WmsndqWNP1gjcV01ppRb3YjECAd5eGEdJ140u3csG6zot3PvfG3UahpgL4K0ZqeCXkFwt/bEzBQs= Received: by 10.141.88.3 with SMTP id q3mr1822267rvl.46.1198072577336; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.50.5 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:56:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9cf5ced20712190556t19a13278p54671bd18d2ae902@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:56:17 -0500 From: "David Frascone" Sender: frascone@gmail.com To: "Marcel Moolenaar" In-Reply-To: <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <9cf5ced20712131308j72173957u8656386d2330e982@mail.gmail.com> <4761A790.6060501@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712131507o55377136w90a61c921bf1c106@mail.gmail.com> <9cf5ced20712131853r2c764c9bj3121235eef12cbb1@mail.gmail.com> <47621F28.6070703@freebsd.org> <9cf5ced20712140537i5438f99eia4bd3aa82585fa97@mail.gmail.com> <4762AB8E.8010308@freebsd.org> <998654FC-D003-4B80-9339-C4165DB5336C@mac.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: feb026e8139feb04 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: grehan@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What machine(s) is the PPC iso suposed to boot on? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:56:18 -0000 Status Update: With everyone's help, I did manage to get my iBook booting to BSD (with manual intervention ;), and is even working as a NIS and amd client. So -- things are going VERY well. I was a little surprised, however, that there was no powerpc ports tree. Oh well, at least I have gcc and bash ;) -Dave On Dec 14, 2007 1:18 PM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Peter Grehan wrote: > > >>> Swap too? > > > > Yep, FreeBSD pays no attention to the type of partition other than > > listing it as available for use. > > This changes. Already with gpart you cannot make kernel dumps > on partitions that are not of type "freebsd-swap". In the > future we will probably have newfs(8) check the partition-type > in order to determine which file-system to create. The same > applies to fsck(8). > > Fortunately: the tools are there in FreeBSD to repartition and > change partition types. The only problem is that we don't have > them available during installation. > > It is my intend to have sysinstall switch to gpart on platforms > that most need it. However, it's not something that will happen > for 7.0-RELEASE... > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > xcllnt@mac.com > > >