Mac mini and FreeBSD - dmesg.boot!

[Peter Grehan]

> Nothing too exciting.  Now that I know I *can* install it, I
> might re-parition the whole thing to have multiple FreeBSD
> installs.  That has saved me several times when developing on
> i386 and sparc64!  And I want to set up some of my "standard
> programs" (which doesn't include X...), like bash, rsync, and
> subversion.  And there's some other changes I'm working on, where
> I would like to at least test-compile on PPC before I do anything
> with them.

  I'm very happy to see it getting some normal use :)

> I'd also like to try OpenBSD/macppc on it, just to see how
> close that comes to working.

  NetBSD definitely runs on it, and I'm pretty sure Open would as well.

>>  It shouldn't matter too much. FreeBSD ignores the partition
>> type and doesn't change it.
> 
> 
> Actually, what I'm the most worried about is that the MacOS 10
> side thinks that is a perfectly nice, empty, usable partition.
> Is there any good way to hide those partitions from MacOS 10?
> (I guess I could just unmount them at startup).

  The best way is to have a partition type that OSX doesn't
understand, but as you've seen Apple have dumbed down the
disk utility so you can't set the type to other than HFS+
or UFS. At some point I'll bring the pdisk utility into the
tree, and that could be used to change partition types from
a bootable CD.

later,

Peter.