Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:12:52 +0100 From: "Hawker, Daniel" <Daniel.Hawker@animal.co.uk> To: <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Older PPC machines... Message-ID: <405C9133F90F64479D822B1001D86AE032771F@itchy.animalkingdom.local>
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Hi All, My first post, so please be nice :) Have a few old Macs in the garage that I use for various tasks (door stop, DNS, etc), presently running Linux PPC (Yellow Dog Linux 4) or Mac OS9 (dual booting on one). This was admittedly a bit of a pain to install (these older machines need a slightly different kernel to allow for certain hardware) and I had to scour the web for info to get them going. I'd like to install FreeBSD on one of these machines, more as a project than as a real reason to accomplish anything and wondered if these are at all compatible. As mentioned its only really an experiment, I have FreeBSD running on a Sony Vaio Picturebook for a web development and general messing about machine, so if it's a no-go I'll leave it on Linux, but I'd prefer to run FreeBSD if at all possible. I have noticed that there is a PPC version of NetBSD available, so I guess I could use that if need be, however am more familiar with FreeBSD. If these older machines are unsupported (and there is a plan for them to be supported) I'd be willing to do some testing of some sorts. The hardware I have is below. Thanks Dan -- PowerMac 7600/132 with 192MB RAM PowerMac 9500/180MP with 384MB RAM (dual processor board, yes actually has 2 processors too) (both of these are pure SCSI machines, ie have SCSI hard disks and CDROMs, no IDE at all, which makes getting largeish hard disks either hard or impossible). Random set of hardware, including... ADB mice/keyboards Iomega Zip & Jaz drives (SCSI) Linotype Jade2 Scanner (SCSI) A number of external SCSI hard disks PCI Ethernet card (Kingston EtheRX KNE100TX) PCI USB card (Belkin IIRC) PCI SCSI card (Adaptec AHA-2940U) - not presently doing anything apart from being plugged in and powered up. AppleVision 1710 monitors (some other stuff in a box buried under loads of general rubbish)home | help
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