From owner-freebsd-ppc Wed Feb 19 21:16: 1 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 259F737B405 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from gt3.OntheNet.com.au (nt.com.au [203.13.70.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B4843F85 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-203-45-238-180.qld.bigpond.net.au [203.45.238.180]) by gt3.OntheNet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1K5FsVU054990; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:15:55 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <3E5464D3.F3B75FD7@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:17:07 +1000 From: Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing References: <166439.1045677133482.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hi Sean, > 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 use the same model for development, no problem there. > 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? NetBSD supports pretty much every PowerMac model except the original NuBus ones. OpenBSD supports the same model range as OSX, which is G3+G4 machines. I suspect this will be the target for FreeBSD as well. The unsupported G3 machines at the moment with FreeBSD are the beige, B&W, and early iMacs. That should be rectified soon. > 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. Yep, although as Drew mentioned you'll need a separate partition for FreeBSD. > 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! Great! later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message