From owner-freebsd-ppc Thu Feb 20 7:58:36 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 7800937B401; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net (mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C1144011; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from welchsm@earthlink.net) Received: from waldorf.psp.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.78.20]) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18lt5M-0001Gm-00; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:08 -0800 Received: from [207.217.78.205] by EarthlinkWAM via HTTP; Thu Feb 20 07:58:08 PST 2003 Message-ID: <1162021.1045756688770.JavaMail.nobody@waldorf.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:06 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch Reply-To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org To: Peter Grehan Subject: Re: Re: 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 It's good to hear confirmation that my hardware is sufficient. A new partition is no problem. My main machine is an Inspiron 8000 with 40GB disk. It has WinME, two installs of 4.7-RELEASE and one of 5.0-RELEASE -- I should be able to run a cross-compile on it. Now I'll need to go research cross-compiling and netbooting... Any pointers before I start googling for info? Sean -------Original Message------- From: Peter Grehan Sent: 02/19/03 11:17 PM To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing > > 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