Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:57:32 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting freebsd on a powermac g4 from a CD Message-ID: <20141121055732.GB56272@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org> References: <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com> <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:56:25AM -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 11/20/14 10:54, Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > > What might be the current official method or at least known > > working method for booting FreeBSD on a PowerMac G4 from a CD? > > You should just be able to insert the CD and hold 'C'. Does that not > work for you? What model of G4 is this? Alternatively, netbooting had always worked for me as described by Peter here: https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html Once you have server parts set up, switching between different OSes or distsets becomes very easy (and CDs are nuisance to handle anyways). ./danfe
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