FreeBSD-ppc on an external hdd (Mac Mini)

[Suleiman Souhlal]

Hi,

On Jun 30, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 8:03 AM +1000 7/1/05, Peter Grehan wrote:
>
>>  > Hi guys, I've just installed FreeBSD on an external hard drive.
>>  > You know, I was too lazy to reformat everything, so I recycled
>>  > an old 6Gig harddrive thanks to an external box. You can find
>>  > a mini-guide at:
>>  >
>>
>>>  http://tinyurl.com/b7s8u
>>>
>>
>>  Great work Dario ! I'm looking forward to the FreeSBIE/ppc
>>  live CD :)
>>
>
> Indeed.  The more ppc users, the merrier!
>
> I also took an external firewire drive, and used Apple's disk
> utility app to create a bunch of partitions on it.  Apparently
> the utility decides to create an additional tiny partition
> between each partition that I actually asked it to create, which
> means I ended up with a lot of partitions.  So my list includes:
>
> Intended-Use    Partition  FreeSpace
> ------------    ---------  ---------
>           ??    da0s9        262144 blocks   (128MB)
> MacOS 10.4      da0s10     36647736 blocks (17894MB)
>           ??    da0s11        17408 blocks     (8MB)
> /               da0s12      3254152 blocks  (1588MB)
>           ??    da0s13        17408 blocks     (8MB)
> /usr            da0s14      5749760 blocks  (2807MB)
>           ??    da0s15        17408 blocks     (8MB)
> /usr/obj        da0s16      6798336 blocks  (3319MB)
>
> The thing is, I actually have more partitions than that.  MacOS
> sees them all, but FreeBSD only lists the first 16?  It happens
> that most of the later partitions are meant for other OS's anyway,
> so this isn't much of a problem for me.  Just wanted to mention it.
>
> Also, what does sysinstall run to look at these partitions?  I
> tried 'bsdlabel' to read the list of partitions, but all it would
> say was:   "a -m <architecture> option must be specified"

We don't support bsd labels on ppc.. I had patches that I sent phk to  
make them work, about a year ago, but he said he'd rather not have  
them supported, because of their limits.

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