ethernet (gem0) not working during installation of FreeBSD-8.0 on a G5

[Thomas Fritz]

Ok. 
But there is no gpart binary in the holographic shell. 
Can I mount it somehow from the 8.0-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1? 

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:52:37 +1300, Nathan Whitehorn
<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> You can use gpart from the command line to partition the disk. Something 
> like this:
> 
> For example, to install the bootloader and make a 10G partition on disk
> ad0:
> 
> gpart add -s 800K -t '!Apple_Bootstrap' ad0
> dd if=/boot/boot1.hfs of=/dev/ad0sXX
> gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ad0
> newfs /dev/ad0sXX
> 
> There should be a new version of sysinstall capable of doing this before 
> 8.1, but for now you will have to muck about with this by hand.
> -Nathan
> 
> Thomas Fritz wrote:
>> Ok. I got that working. It seems, that the autoselect of gem0 does not
>> work
>> properly.
>> So I set it manually in the shell with 'ifconfig gem0 media
10baseT/UTP'.
>>
>> But I am still having difficulties. The partitioning does not work. I
>> read
>> already, that this is a known problem, but I couldn't find a solution so
>> far.
>>
>> Thanks for any help in advance.
>> Thomas
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:13 +0100, Thomas Fritz <tf at slash10.net> wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE on a 1.8GHz G5.
>>> Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the ethernet
>>> connection. DHCP gets no answer, setting the IP-address
>>> manually works, but there is no traffic on the wire.
>>> Anyone else experiencing problems like this?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Thomas
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