PPC miniinst.iso available

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 6 01:37:02 GMT 2005


> I like your overlay install idea that you mentioned a while back.  If
> I remember correctly, it some something like we install ourselves into
> /FreeBSD on the normal MacOSX partition, and we automatically prepend
> /FreeBSD to any name lookups just like the linuxulater prepends
> /compat/linux.   Or maybe just chroot ourselves into /FreeBSD.
> 
> But that depends on having HFS in the base system.  Which might be a
> good idea..

  Unfortunately the FreeBSD buf code has diverged enough from OSX's
that the existing HFS port, which has the excellent property of
using OSX HFS code unchanged, no longer works :(

later,

Peter.



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