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> Is there a quick and dirty "how to make a FreeBSD PPC Build" for
> people who currently have an "unsupported" platform and an x86
> FreeBSD box?

  The quickest and dirtiest is

      make TARGET_ARCH=powerpc buildworld buildkernel

  That'll populate /usr/obj/ with the requisite binaries.

> .. the other thing would be, could I make a quick ISO (similar
> to miniinst) to make it easier to install? I'm still setting
> up my TFTP stuff on my server :)

  I'm testing some 'make release' stuff submitted by Suleiman Souhlal:
that should get into the tree soon.

later,

Peter.