PowerPC installer

[Nathan Whitehorn]

On 01/22/11 18:06, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:09:48 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn<nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>  wrote:
>
>> As part of my work on BSDInstall (http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall),
>> I've produced an install CD that can set up a bootable system on Apple
>> powerpc hardware. This may be useful to people trying to set up new
>> machines. An ISO is here:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/bsdinstall-powerpc-20110116.iso.bz2
> The installer claims that the current "partitioning scheme" (MBR) isn't
> bootable on PowerPC. If it is correct, we will have to manually
> partition things from a shell, right?

No, just delete the existing partitioning and replace with APM. The 
installer knows what to do here. If you want to give FreeBSD a whole 
disk, the "Entire Disk" autopartitioning option will also do the right 
thing.
-Nathan