7.0-snap available

[James Toy]

On 9/11/05 17-15, "Florent Thoumie" <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:43 -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Monday 07 November 2005 04:54 pm, Peter Grehan wrote:
>>>>> I even suspect the same would happen on i386.
>>>> 
>>>> No, it isn't.
>>> 
>>>   OK, I'm happy to stand corrected.
>>> 
>>>> probably because GEOM thinks that something else has ad1s5 open
>>>> still.  Might be a bug in the ppc libdisk bits maybe?
>>> 
>>>   More likely the GEOM apple partition code. Perhaps a reference count
>>> being held when it shouldn't. But it's all moot until the loader has
>>> support for a partitioning scheme - 'auto' will be disabled.
>>> 
>>>   So John when are you going to install on your Powerbook ? :)
>> 
>> Heh, when I can figure out a way to partition the disk up.  I guess I'd need
>> to reinstall tiger to layout all the partitions, etc.  Having the built-in
>> keyboard work would be an added incentive. :)  It sure gets better battery
>> life than my current freebsd luggable.  (45 minutes without wireless if I'm
>> lucky, more like 15 with wireless)
> 
> I'd be interested if you find a way to shrink your Tiger
> partition. I've been pondering reinstalling Tiger for weeks but
> if I could find something else, that could save me from
> (useless) backups.
> 
> Anyway, I thought that latest Powerbook's keyboards were
> supported (as I advertised in platforms/ppc.html :))

>> there are such packages that can be install into the actual mac osx system to
shink parts...google for it =)...but I know that they exist :)...also an option
for people would be CCC carbon copy cloner...which is something similar to dd in
fbsd...good luck

-jt