Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 15:39:44 -0600 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Cc: grehan@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <7475487.1045690784155.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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Hey there... I am also waiting to see if there will be a resonse here. I expect the coders don't believe that it has reached a point where we won't need hand holding for every step of the process. I am sure they will announce something when they are ready and I just hope they keep us in there queue of people who are willing to test :) Dave On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:52AM, Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> wrote: >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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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