Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 23:06:47 -0500 From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD ppc livecd? disk 1? Message-ID: <47d0403c0711172006l3f9d02ceia4e3d242ab3671be@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I had to reboot my iBook G4 today, so I thought I'd try booting FreeBSD on it and see how well it worked; I also wanted to see if I could find out any information about the sound card in it, as there was a request on this list several months ago for that information that I believe is yet unanswered. However, I did not succeed in getting a livecd to work -- my understanding is that (for most architectures, at least) disc 1 should be a live CD and contain the standard base system utilities. However, sysinstall from both a 7.0-beta1 and a 6.2-release disc 1 did not seem to think the disc was a live CD. Is this the expected behavior? I presume so, but want to check before I try to cross-build a pciconf binary to examine the sound card. Also, a livecd would be nice just to see how well FreeBSD plays with the hardware; if I do need to do a reinstall at some point, it would be nice to put FreeBSD on the machine as well as OS X. Thanks, Ben Kadukhome | help
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