Installing FreeBSD from CD
Michael Dexter
dexter at ambidexter.com
Thu May 12 09:42:44 PDT 2005
>>Assumption: UFS2 under x86 will be the same as UFS2 under
>>PowerPC. Flawed?
>
>I am pretty sure that UFS2 embeds some endian-specific info,
>and thus you can't move it from a little-endian (i386) to a
>big-endian (PPC) platform.
Hmm. Has anyone experimented with yar's port of Apple HFS code in
this context? Tiger introduces case-sensitivity (don't laugh) and
perhaps a re-synced version of his kernel module could be built-in to
give HFS-X bootability and a chance of the target-disk-mode
formatting trick to work.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/
Michael.
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