Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:47:06 +0200 From: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) Message-ID: <20050630224706.GA29355@cvs.freesbie.org> In-Reply-To: <p06230910beea21981588@[128.113.24.47]> References: <aba9cfad.14ba41c9.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <p06230910beea21981588@[128.113.24.47]>
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--6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:41:22PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 8:03 AM +1000 7/1/05, Peter Grehan wrote: > > > Hi guys, I've just installed FreeBSD on an external hard drive. > > > You know, I was too lazy to reformat everything, so I recycled > > > an old 6Gig harddrive thanks to an external box. You can find > > > a mini-guide at: > > > > >> http://tinyurl.com/b7s8u > > > > Great work Dario ! I'm looking forward to the FreeSBIE/ppc > > live CD :) >=20 > Indeed. The more ppc users, the merrier! >=20 > I also took an external firewire drive, and used Apple's disk > utility app to create a bunch of partitions on it. Apparently > the utility decides to create an additional tiny partition > between each partition that I actually asked it to create, which > means I ended up with a lot of partitions. So my list includes: >=20 > Intended-Use Partition FreeSpace > ------------ --------- --------- > ?? da0s9 262144 blocks (128MB) > MacOS 10.4 da0s10 36647736 blocks (17894MB) > ?? da0s11 17408 blocks (8MB) > / da0s12 3254152 blocks (1588MB) > ?? da0s13 17408 blocks (8MB) > /usr da0s14 5749760 blocks (2807MB) > ?? da0s15 17408 blocks (8MB) > /usr/obj da0s16 6798336 blocks (3319MB) Why are they starting from 9? > The thing is, I actually have more partitions than that. MacOS > sees them all, but FreeBSD only lists the first 16? It happens > that most of the later partitions are meant for other OS's anyway, > so this isn't much of a problem for me. Just wanted to mention it. > > Also, what does sysinstall run to look at these partitions? I > tried 'bsdlabel' to read the list of partitions, but all it would > say was: "a -m <architecture> option must be specified" =2E..and -m powerpc says "not supported" --=20 Dario Freni (saturnero@freesbie.org) FreeSBIE developer (http://www.freesbie.org) GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCxHZpymi72IiShysRAlpVAJ9PC7H31pzfNreJ87H4kW4DrXbtkACdGYLq Y4YclsJjwnxSWvxrG/SKM7k= =lbbf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0--
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