Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:46:35 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac mini and FreeBSD - dmesg.boot! Message-ID: <41F48BBB.3080708@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <p0620073cbe1a32f4d595@[128.113.24.47]> References: <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <p06200731be1731cf8ec8@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200732be184e814933@[128.113.24.47]> <41F3AFBD.60505@freebsd.org> <p06200737be19ffbdd478@[128.113.24.47]> <41F47300.3050406@freebsd.org> <p0620073abe1a23663046@[128.113.24.47]> <41F47C1C.2060608@freebsd.org> <p0620073cbe1a32f4d595@[128.113.24.47]>
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> Nothing too exciting. Now that I know I *can* install it, I > might re-parition the whole thing to have multiple FreeBSD > installs. That has saved me several times when developing on > i386 and sparc64! And I want to set up some of my "standard > programs" (which doesn't include X...), like bash, rsync, and > subversion. And there's some other changes I'm working on, where > I would like to at least test-compile on PPC before I do anything > with them. I'm very happy to see it getting some normal use :) > I'd also like to try OpenBSD/macppc on it, just to see how > close that comes to working. NetBSD definitely runs on it, and I'm pretty sure Open would as well. >> It shouldn't matter too much. FreeBSD ignores the partition >> type and doesn't change it. > > > Actually, what I'm the most worried about is that the MacOS 10 > side thinks that is a perfectly nice, empty, usable partition. > Is there any good way to hide those partitions from MacOS 10? > (I guess I could just unmount them at startup). The best way is to have a partition type that OSX doesn't understand, but as you've seen Apple have dumbed down the disk utility so you can't set the type to other than HFS+ or UFS. At some point I'll bring the pdisk utility into the tree, and that could be used to change partition types from a bootable CD. later, Peter.
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