FreeBSD on an external Firewire HD

[Rickey Bartlett]

Yeah, I tried that just after posting that question. Maybe I shouldnt try to
do these things when I have been up for such a long time, especially when
the error was so obvious. :) Ah well.

Portsnap is happily extracting away right now, and I have a lot of work to
do on that machine. But, the important thing is I finally have FreeBSD on my
PowerBook, well kind of ;) Even if, for the moment it is more of a novelty
than anything. Thanks for your help!

Oops, real quick... Do you know the status of the Wireless driver? Does it
have a Windows counterpart ? (I was hoping to use NDIS wrapper if all else
failed... Either that or just put one of my other wireless cards in it...).

Rickey

On 8/7/06, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Rickey,
>
> > Well, that didnt fix it. Ideas anyone?
> >
> > One thing I did notice when it boots is that it mentions that /dev/da0s5
> > has
> > been mentioned more than once in fstab, and then it spews out operation
> not
> > permitted.  I clicked 'A' for auto label on that particular partition,
> and
> > partitioned s3 as swap. Im going to give it a whirl one more time before
> > bed, if anyone has any ideas Im all ears.
>
>    'A' doesn't work. What you should do is to partition the target drive
> using a tool on OSX. Then, do the FreeBSD install. Manually select the
> partitions and assign directories to them. The easiest approach is to
> put / on a partition.
>
>   The next step, setting up the system to boot, is slightly manual. See
>    http://www.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt
>
>   Yes, this is far from perfect, or perhaps even usable, but that's why
> PPC is tier-2.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>