Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:26:28 -0500 From: James Toy <jamestoy@comcast.net> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0-snap available Message-ID: <BF97E1C4.2EA%jamestoy@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <1131574521.28209.2.camel@innercity.xbsd.org>
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On 9/11/05 17-15, "Florent Thoumie" <flz@xbsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:43 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote: >>>>> I even suspect the same would happen on i386. >>>> >>>> No, it isn't. >>> >>> OK, I'm happy to stand corrected. >>> >>>> probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open >>>> still. Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe? >>> >>> More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count >>> being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has >>> support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled. >>> >>> So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :) >> >> Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up. I guess I'd need >> to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc. Having the built-in >> keyboard work would be an added incentive. :) It sure gets better battery >> life than my current freebsd luggable. (45 minutes without wireless if I'm >> lucky, more like 15 with wireless) > > I'd be interested if you find a way to shrink your Tiger > partition. I've been pondering reinstalling Tiger for weeks but > if I could find something else, that could save me from > (useless) backups. > > Anyway, I thought that latest Powerbook's keyboards were > supported (as I advertised in platforms/ppc.html :)) >> there are such packages that can be install into the actual mac osx system to shink parts...google for it =)...but I know that they exist :)...also an option for people would be CCC carbon copy cloner...which is something similar to dd in fbsd...good luck -jt
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