ethernet (gem0) not working during installation of FreeBSD-8.0 on a G5

[Nathan Whitehorn]

You can use gpart from the command line to partition the disk. Something 
like this:

For example, to install the bootloader and make a 10G partition on disk ad0:

gpart add -s 800K -t '!Apple_Bootstrap' ad0
dd if=/boot/boot1.hfs of=/dev/ad0sXX
gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-ufs ad0
newfs /dev/ad0sXX

There should be a new version of sysinstall capable of doing this before 
8.1, but for now you will have to muck about with this by hand.
-Nathan

Thomas Fritz wrote:
> Ok. I got that working. It seems, that the autoselect of gem0 does not work
> properly.
> So I set it manually in the shell with 'ifconfig gem0 media 10baseT/UTP'.
>
> But I am still having difficulties. The partitioning does not work. I read
> already, that this is a known problem, but I couldn't find a solution so
> far.
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
> Thomas
>
> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:41:13 +0100, Thomas Fritz <tf at slash10.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD-8.0-RELEASE on a 1.8GHz G5.
>> Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the ethernet
>> connection. DHCP gets no answer, setting the IP-address
>> manually works, but there is no traffic on the wire.
>> Anyone else experiencing problems like this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Thomas
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