Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:35:31 -0400 From: samankaya@netscape.net To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Partitioning disks on PPC for FreeBSD, installer crashes Message-ID: <8CBDAE7B6DF4496-16E8-A34@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com> References: <8CBDADB1950718E-16E8-7AF@webmail-dx04.sysops.aol.com>
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Ok, I managed to use the fixit part of the install menu to get to activate the holographic shell then by pressing alt F4 I was able to open up the shell prompt on tty4. So far good news :-) Using a bit of help by this: http://unix.derkeiler.com/Newsgroups/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/2004-10/0920.html I was able to figure out that echo * lists the contents of each cd'ed directory. Therefor I ran: cd /bin echo * this revealed the available commands to me as /bin and /sbin where both the same. I then did: cd /dev echo * found out that my hard drive was located at ad0 with a slice on ad0s1 then ran: newfs ad0 while I was in the /dev dir and it managed to print out all the sectors on the disk but I still haven't been able to work out how to create a new filesystem using and label using this command syntax! -----Original Message----- From: samankaya@netscape.net To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Sent: Sat, Jul 25, 2009 4:05 am Subject: Partitioning disks on PPC for FreeBSD, installer crashes Hi, this is a strange issue but I'm trying to install FreeBSD onto my PowerMac G4 Quicksilver 733MHz machine. I got as far as the partitioner in the standard install but couldn't figure out how to add slices as there is no option to create a disk label for it. Each time I try to use (C)reate a slice I get a message on the screen saying that I have to do this on a Master Partition.... How do I create this?? I tried dropping into a shell do use fdisk on it but it wouldn't allow me to do so using the holographic shell via the installer menu. Can anyone help give me an idea of what to do?? I used a Debian Linux boot cd which works fine and is able to detect the disk and partition it. I also created the needed 8MB yaboot partition in order to perhaps detect the disk but no such luck. The CD is iso1 of FreeBSD 7.1 I hope I don't have to go back to Debian as I really want to learn BSD!! Regards, Kaya A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!
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