Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:13:42 +0000 From: Ananda Samaddar <ananda.samaddar@vfemail.net> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Message-ID: <20090226191342.52d4a36b@ananda-desktop>
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hi all, I'm a prospective FreeBSD user and I've already done a bit of research on the website, docs and mailing lists. I do have a few questions, most of them are for confirmation rather than anything else so here goes: 1. It's not possible to use the installer to partition your disk as fdisk doesn't work is this true? 2. Open Firmware doesn't understand FreeBSD partitions so there's no reasonable way to boot an installed system is there? 3. Altivec is not supported so there'll be a performance hit when using FreeBSD? The above issues are quite serious impediments in my opinion so I hope I'm wrong on these issues. Please let me know what the situation is and how FreeBSD performs on PPC in general. thanks in advance, Ananda Samaddar
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