From owner-freebsd-ppc Wed Feb 19 9:52:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E1337B401; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:52:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A5143FA3; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.218]) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18lYOD-0007mR-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:52:13 -0800 Received: from [207.217.78.11] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Wed Feb 19 09:52:13 PST 2003 Message-ID: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:52:12 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org To: grehan@freebsd.org Subject: Also interested in testing Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Earthlink Web Access Mail version 3.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message