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jacatone
May 23rd, 2011, 23:50
Got an old Mac OSX 10.4 PowerPC desktop. Where would I find directions on how to install FreeBSD on this machine? Thanks.
UNIXgod
May 24th, 2011, 00:07
Which processor is that? Motorola or IBM?
aurora72
June 30th, 2011, 10:44
It should not matter whether the processor is made by Motorola or IBM, the PPC Instruction set must be the same.
SirDice
June 30th, 2011, 11:33
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
http://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc
http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/ppcinstall.txt
sossego
June 30th, 2011, 15:20
What model is it? Which CPU?

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=13827

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