Questions about FreeBSD on a Mac Mini

[Ananda Samaddar]

hi all,

I'm a prospective FreeBSD user and I've already done a bit of research
on the website, docs and mailing lists.  I do have a few questions,
most of them are for confirmation rather than anything else so here
goes:

1. It's not possible to use the installer to partition your disk as
fdisk doesn't work is this true?

2. Open Firmware doesn't understand FreeBSD partitions so there's no
reasonable way to boot an installed system is there?

3. Altivec is not supported so there'll be a performance hit when using
FreeBSD?

The above issues are quite serious impediments in my opinion so I hope
I'm wrong on these issues.  Please let me know what the situation is
and how FreeBSD performs on PPC in general.

thanks in advance,

Ananda Samaddar