Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:30:28 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini) Message-ID: <p06230911beea494e6466@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20050630224706.GA29355@cvs.freesbie.org> References: <aba9cfad.14ba41c9.819d300@dommail.onthenet.com.au> <p06230910beea21981588@[128.113.24.47]> <20050630224706.GA29355@cvs.freesbie.org>
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At 12:47 AM +0200 7/1/05, Dario Freni wrote: >On Thu, Jun 30, 2005, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > >> 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: >> >> 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? Because I skipped over the first eight... :-) I think I have some extra partitions before these because I said "install drivers for MacOS 9". This external hard disk is still (occasionally) moved between machines, so that seemed like a good idea at the time. But now that I think of it, I believe that just last week I switched over the last person on campus who was still running MacOS 9 campus... When I run the DiskUtility.app on MacOS 10, that partition on da0s10 is the first partition which the application displays. I wonder if those small partitions include meta-data for the real partitions which follow them. > > 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" > >...and -m powerpc says "not supported" Yeah. I did a 'strings' on the executable, and it didn't seem to include anything like 'ppc' or 'powerpc'. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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