From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 05:28:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26D6416A4CF for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:28:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E2543D46 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:28:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j0O5SYHZ003880 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:28:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 00:28:33 -0500 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - some initial details X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:28:36 -0000 At 10:55 PM -0500 1/23/05, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >I bought the Mac-mini which has a 1.42GHz G4 processor, and an >"80-gig" hard disk (it's really about 74.5 gig). In order to get one on the first day, I had to take a standard config. So, I don't have bluetooth or airport extreme on this Mac-mini. I have no idea what FreeBSD might do with those. > [... In disklabel:] I found the partition which I >had created for FreeBSD (in my case it was 'ad0s5'), and >created a partition there, naming it '/'. Oh, and since I only have one partition for *everything* in FreeBSD, I turned on softupdates for the '/' partition. I don't know if anyone else has been running softupdates on PPC... (I would like it for doing dump/restore copies, if nothing else) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu