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minimike

May 25th, 2010, 13:23

Hello Forum

I am thinking about to buy some Apple Xserve Boxes with two G5 MP CPU's. Does FreeBSD 8 support the PPC G5 with support for Multi Prozessors? And can i install FreeBSD 8 on PPC with a ZFS RootFS? Or do i need some space foor /boot?

kind regards
Darko

SirDice

May 25th, 2010, 14:18

PPC is a tier2 platform. Not everything may work.

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html

sossego

May 27th, 2010, 10:07

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13827 will help in getting started.
You may want to join the mailing list.
There was some problem with the fan running. I don't know if this has been solved as of yet.