Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:13:59 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Neal Nelson <nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerBook G3 Message-ID: <42005387.4020502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2e0a01a01f29b3b4c89ea0489a907179@kobudo.homeunix.net> References: <2e0a01a01f29b3b4c89ea0489a907179@kobudo.homeunix.net>
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Hi Neal, > I was wondering if it was possible to install FreeBSD onto a PowerBook > G3 (3500). It has OpenFirmware 2.something, so the boot instructions > don't work for this. That's right. Amongst other things, v2.x requires the loader to be in XCOFF format instead of ELF, and some of the OpenFirmware calls used by the current loader aren't supported. > I was able to install NetBSD < 2.0 on this if that's any help. NetBSD is pretty good about supporting older models :) later, Peter.
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