(FC4 PPC) Mac Mini Firewire install

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul  8, 2005, Steven Ringwald <asric at asric.com> wrote:

> When I boot the CD up, it sees the firewire controller, loads the sbp2
> driver, and from the console (Alt-F2) fdisk can see the drive, but disk
> druid (or the automatic partitioner) only sees /dev/had, and not the
> /dev/sda that the firewire drive is assigned. Is there something that I need
> to do to get the drive recognized by the installer, or will I have to
> install by hand?

Try adding `expert' to the installer boot command line.  For some odd
reason, Firewire drives are only enabled in the installer if you claim
to be one.

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