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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:08:48 +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 - some initial details
Message-ID:  <41F490F0.9020901@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <p0620073dbe1a369ab07f@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <41F170F1.2010701@finnovative.net> <p06200731be1731cf8ec8@[128.113.24.47]> <p06200739be1a164f1ed0@[128.113.24.47]> <p0620073dbe1a369ab07f@[128.113.24.47]>

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> 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.

  Nothing yet. Maybe never :-(

  They're both Broadcom parts with no public documentation. I've used 
external Bluetooth USB dongles successfully on FreeBSD/PPC.

>>   [... 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)

  I haven't tried that, so let us know how it goes.

later,

Peter.



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