From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 02:24:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBAC3106564A for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:24:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp7.server.rpi.edu (smtp7.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D1BD8FC14 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:24:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp7.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0S2OLjH011013; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:24:23 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20090128015649.M62384@ocis.net> References: <20090105162138.M45881@ocis.net> <1231178414.24576.32.camel@horst-tla> <20090127000528.M4693@ocis.net> <20090127235026.M44901@ocis.net> <20090128015649.M62384@ocis.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:24:20 -0500 To: "Colin Dick" , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.80 () [Hold at 20.00] PORN_RP_DICK,22490(-25) X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.227 Cc: justin@ocis.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 Install on an older Mac Mini X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:24:27 -0000 At 5:56 PM -0800 1/27/09, Colin Dick wrote: > I have just run portsnap fetch/extract and I am ready to start >building ports. Before I begin and break things, is there >anything special I have to do before building or can I now just >start to run this thing like I would any i386 device In my case, after I got past the initial install than I treat my PPC mini-mac install pretty much the same way I do for all my other FreeBSD installs. Of course, that's no guarantee that you won't run into other issues. In particular, I don't run X11 on *any* of my FreeBSD machines, so I don't know what the state of X11, KDE, or GNOME is on FreeBSD/PPC. Hopefully it will work fine for you, and it'll be worth all the initial trouble in setting it up! :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu