FreeBSD on Mac Mini

[Super Bisquit]

You have to do the partitioning from within the macosx system.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Milan Obuch <freebsd-ppc at dino.sk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> one week ago I've got a G4 Mac Mini for cheap, and I decided to try
> FreeBSD on it. So far I was able to use standard install CD media,
> using FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201102-powerpc-disc1.iso image from
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201102/ directory. It took
> me a bit of trial and error to create workable disc layout, mainly
> because I did not get in touch with Macs before and basically know
> nothing about openfirmware :) Now it works, I completed full system
> rebuild from sources twice. So far, so good.
>
> I installed X from ports and here comes first question. I have Samsung
> monitor connected to mini via DVI. In 'text' mode monitor says
> 1920x1080, I have 65 lines of text, each 200 characters long, it looks
> like 'used' screen area has 1600x1050 dimension or something like this.
> In X, however, monitor says mode is only 1280x960. As it works in
> console mode in 1920x1080, it must be possible to use this in X too.
> Needless to say, it uses this mode in Mac OS X, too. I use ati driver
> here.
>
> And one more question - I looked for dual boot configs, but did not
> find any FreeBSD + Mac OS X combo. I will try something, again, when I
> will either free another HDD for this purpose (there are files I would
> like to preserve, and it takes some time to put them somewhere else) or
> buy a new one (a bit bigger, but HDDs are somewhat more costly these
> days), but if someone already did this and have some notes to share,
> I'll be just glad. Also, I plan to test bsdinstaller found on page
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall - just to see if it will be easier
> to proceed, even if it seems to be a bit older than snapshot used.
>
> That's for now. If anybody has some hints fro me, needs some more data
> to answer my questions or would like me to test something, just let me
> know. As soon as I have some more time I plan to write about my
> experiences gained so other could benefit from my tests as well.
>
> Regards,
> Milan
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