I'm new to FreeBSD but have learned some of the ropes on an x86_64 Intel virtual machine. So far, I like it. I installed FreeBSD for 32-bit PowerPC on an iBook G4.
I tried running
Anyway, I don't think I'm understanding this correctly. If I'm using PowerPC, can I just not use pkg? I see that /usr/ports has a ton of source code for software in it. Do I have to cd into /usr/ports/(something) and
P.S. This thing is so slow that I'm going to ask my brother what the CPU clock speed is on this so I can make sure dev.cpu.0.freq is set properly in sysctl.
I tried running
pkg install nano
as root, and it failed to connect to some server to get the port. After researching, I found recommendations to run portsnap fetch ; portsnap extract ; portsnap update
to fix this. After waiting several hours for that to finish, I tried pkg install nano
again, and it failed to find a couple of txz files then said "Unable to Update Repository".Anyway, I don't think I'm understanding this correctly. If I'm using PowerPC, can I just not use pkg? I see that /usr/ports has a ton of source code for software in it. Do I have to cd into /usr/ports/(something) and
make install
to install everything?P.S. This thing is so slow that I'm going to ask my brother what the CPU clock speed is on this so I can make sure dev.cpu.0.freq is set properly in sysctl.