Hello.
I recently got a PowerMac G4 from 1999 (the one with ATi PCI graphics), and it is lightning-fast!
Installed new harddrive, and I'm curious to know if a FreeBSD/PowerPC installation would be possible. I've already tried booting from a cd the FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-PowerPC-disc1.iso from the mirrors. It did not work -- there were some complaints about bm0 ... Where can I find a .iso that is possible to boot? First I was thinking some snapshot would work, but there is no snapshots for the PowerPC architecture (at least not in the Stockholm Central mirror).
I've tried some other Operating Systems on it yesterday ... ArchLinux/PPC got a panic, but Debian/PowerPC netinst did work. So now it runs Debian/PowerPC, but I think FreeBSD/PowerPC seems more like me ... Have not tried OpenBSD/macppc, though, but, nah ... I'm already running OpenBSD on the soekris ...
When everything is set up I am thinking of doing some tests and maybe do some mail, temperature or samba stuff ...
I recently got a PowerMac G4 from 1999 (the one with ATi PCI graphics), and it is lightning-fast!
Installed new harddrive, and I'm curious to know if a FreeBSD/PowerPC installation would be possible. I've already tried booting from a cd the FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-PowerPC-disc1.iso from the mirrors. It did not work -- there were some complaints about bm0 ... Where can I find a .iso that is possible to boot? First I was thinking some snapshot would work, but there is no snapshots for the PowerPC architecture (at least not in the Stockholm Central mirror).
I've tried some other Operating Systems on it yesterday ... ArchLinux/PPC got a panic, but Debian/PowerPC netinst did work. So now it runs Debian/PowerPC, but I think FreeBSD/PowerPC seems more like me ... Have not tried OpenBSD/macppc, though, but, nah ... I'm already running OpenBSD on the soekris ...
When everything is set up I am thinking of doing some tests and maybe do some mail, temperature or samba stuff ...