Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:52:12 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> To: grehan@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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I've been following the mailing list archive for a few
months now and I've just recently acquired a second gen
(I believe) clamshell iBook. I'm hoping a few direct
questions will get me (and perhaps others) started...
The hardware I have right now is a 300MHz G3, 67MHz
bus, iBook (version = 83.0), OF rev 3, Boot ROM 4.1.7f4,
288MB RAM, 10/100 ethernet, airport card, 56K modem (all
three built in/installed), USB port,
4MB ATI Rage Mobility Lp(rev 64), 24x(?) Matshita cdrom.
I have currently installed (using the whole disk)
Apple OS 10.2.4 because I wanted to try it out but I have
a 10GB from a Dell laptop I can put in for more room.
Now for the questions. Please forgive me if I've missed
something in the mailing lists about these topics -- I've
not been able to find them.
My understanding is that FreeBSD support is targetted such
that the same machines supported by Net/OpenBSD will be
what can run FreeBSD. Is this correct? My generalized
criteria were that anything supported by Apple's OS X
distributions should or will soon be supported by FreeBSD;
hence the old iBook purchase. If this is not the case,
what specifically should I be looking for in terms of
"development" hardware?
My other questions all deal with what exactly I need to
do to test the current state of the porting effort (and
hopefully eventually contribute to it). Some months back
I saw mention of ISO images and such but I haven't seen
anything like that for a while. Also, not very long ago
someone mentioned "compiling natively;" does this mean
something along the lines of net booting and then using
either an NFS mounted disk or a local disk for compiling
a kernel? What can I do to duplicate this? Are there
ISO images or do need to set up an NFS server for my
efforts?
Finally, I'm interested in (as a final result sometime
down the line) a machine that dual boots Apple OS X and
FreeBSD. I'm guessing that will be possible (as it is
now with Net/OpenBSD with fiddling in OF settings) but
I'd like to confirm this.
If you can point me in the right direction I'd like to
jump in as soon as possible; I've had the iBook a week
now and I'm itching to get my hands dirty in the code!
Sean
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