Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:07:21 -0700 From: "James Earl" <james@icionline.ca> To: grehan@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Single slice for FreeBSD Message-ID: <7039ada60712191307r7d19534jaa9824ebd58a6c2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47696F8F.7080008@freebsd.org> References: <7039ada60712191101r43d9ed6dy9ad179de3a0974df@mail.gmail.com> <7039ada60712191105u3067a6edv626aec1f4e653612@mail.gmail.com> <47696F8F.7080008@freebsd.org>
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On 12/19/07, Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi James, > > > I think I may be confusing partitions and slices. Correct me if I'm > > wrong please. The subject should probably be "Single partition for > > FreeBSD"? > > It's all a bit confusing since the terms in FreeBSD are usually > PC-centric. > > Disks on power mac's are carved up using an Apple Partition Map and > not a PC-style MBR. The individual sections are 'partitions' in Apple > terminology, but are 'slices' in FreeBSD MBR terminology. To confuse > things even more, FreeBSD then subdivides up MBR 'slices' into BSD > 'partitions', e.g. /dev/ad0s4a. > > FreeBSD/ppc doesn't subdivide Apple partitions. I guess it could using > GPT, but that would also involve a change to the bootloader. > > In any event, I htink you are right: the terminology you want is a > partition. Unfortunately the auto-create partitions in the disklabel > part of sysinstall is busted - you have to manually do this. My > recommendation is to select the Apple partition you want to use (e.g. > /dev/ad0s8), put '/' on that, and optionally use another partition for swap. > > later, > > Peter. > Hi Peter, Thanks for the response! Makes sense now. I have 1GB of ram, so it'll be interesting to see how long I can go without a swap partition.
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