Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 01:41:01 +0000 From: precutcolours@mailcan.com To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install Tips for Newbie with FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <1388799661.21741.66383497.2BE461E1@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <52C6C6A5.1020404@freebsd.org> References: <1388713046.8058.65995889.43FA6F1D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <52C6288F.7050106@freebsd.org> <1388742923.13075.66094133.4ECA9B2B@webmail.messagingengine.com> <52C6C6A5.1020404@freebsd.org>
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Nathan you are helpful, prompt, and appreciated. GPT allows the hard disk to boot other systems. They have their own BIOS/firmware needs. Also, I've dealt with APM on *nix, and it's too much pain and suffering. Never mind Windows or end users. Newer Macs use GPT too. I suppose with $HOME and /tmp and caches in RAM, I could install BSD wholesale to the 12 GB flash stick, though upgrades would be an all-day chore given the awful writing speed and compilation. I had the impression ZFS support was more mature? It sounds like much in BSD still doesn't quite work with ZFS, if the fs itself works fine. Almost to a point of best avoided for exotic setups like mine on odd CPUs like mine? Do you have tips for UFS on the flash stick? I know exactly what to do using ext4 on Linux, but not really with UFS. Matter of fact, for ext4 I do e.g. mkfs.ext4 -v -t ext4 -b 2048 -i 16384 -I 128 -m 1 -O ^has_journal -L MyDiskName /dev/sdxN with /etc/mke2fs.conf features = extent,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize auto_64-bit_support = 1 Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_quotes.html
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