Partitioning disks on PPC for FreeBSD, installer crashes

[samankaya at netscape.net]

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