Installing FreeBSD from CD

[Florent Thoumie]

Le Vendredi 13 mai 2005 à 12:11 +1000, Peter Grehan a écrit :
> Hi Michael,
> 
> > Failing that, I concluded that it would be easiest to mount the 
> > PowerBook (Pismo) in FireWire "target disk mode" on an x86 system from 
> > which I can partition and install software either from install ISO 
> > binaries or source.
> > 
> > Assumption: UFS2 under x86 will be the same as UFS2 under PowerPC. Flawed?
> 
>   Yes :(  The FreeBSD UFS code will only work on the endian type that 
> created the filesystem. (NetBSD can be compiled to do this - it detects 
> the disk endian and byte-swaps appropriately). PPC and i386 won't be 
> able to read a UFS volume created by the other.

	I thought PPC could work in both endian modes (31th or 63th bit 
	of MSR), that would mean FreeBSD/ppc could read UFS volumes 
	created by FreeBSD/i386 but not the opposite.

	Please tell me if I'm wrong.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at xbsd.org
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