The sane way to load OpenSolaris on a Mac Mini The best way to rewrite the partition table on a Mac Mini is with the OS X boot DVD. Insert it, reboot, and press C until it boots from the DVD. At that point,
get to where you can start Disk Utility, then:
- Select your disk. It should be the 120G drive.
- Select partition.
- Select options
- At this point, change from GUID to MBR partition table
I also partitioned it as type Unix, but I think you can skip this as long as you get the partition table written. I couldn't figure how to eject the Tiger disk at this point. So, reboot!
At this point, your disk is hosed as far as booting. You need to get the DVD out and the best way to do that is to be pressing your mouse button while it boots. (I did the left mouse button on a Logitech mouse.) When the DVD ejects, insert your OpenSolaris DVD. I can't remember if it booted then or I had to reboot. If you need to reboot, remember to press C.
The other thing to note is that I selected the standard installation (and not the developer's installation). I partitioned the drive as follows:
0 / 20480
1 swap 4096
3 /a1 20480
4 /a2 20480
5 /zap 38632
6 ---- -----
7 /export/home 10240
/a1 and /a2 allow me to do Live Upgrades if I need to. I can also scavenge /export/home if needed (i.e., I'd have a NFS homedir server). These are mainly test machines.
And when it boots and is networked:
partition> p
Current partition table (original):
Total disk cylinders available: 14590 + 2 (reserved cylinders)
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 7054 - 9664 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
1 swap wu 3 - 525 4.01GB (523/0/0) 8401995
2 backup wm 0 - 14589 111.77GB (14590/0/0) 234388350
3 unassigned wm 4443 - 7053 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
4 unassigned wm 1832 - 4442 20.00GB (2611/0/0) 41945715
5 unassigned wm 9665 - 14589 37.73GB (4925/0/0) 79120125
6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
7 home wm 526 - 1831 10.00GB (1306/0/0) 20980890
8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065
9 alternates wu 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130
