Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 07:58:06 -0600 (GMT) From: Sean Welch <welchsm@earthlink.net> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <1162021.1045756688770.JavaMail.nobody@waldorf.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
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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 <grehan@freebsd.org>
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.
>
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