From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Sun Aug 27 17:44:42 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A9EDF48B0 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com [209.17.115.118]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A2407D152 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:44:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob07.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob07.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.45]) by atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7RHfQoM012029 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:41:26 -0400 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob07.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7RHfIfA017506 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:41:18 -0400 Received: (qmail 9221 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2017 17:41:18 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.103.29 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.9?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.103.29) by 0 with ESMTPA; 27 Aug 2017 17:41:18 -0000 Subject: Re: Where would I look to find release 8.1 iso files ? To: Justin Hibbits Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML References: <775bd926-9937-7022-0f51-cf0b745d04ea@blastwave.org> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: <2feb3b83-b2a9-42a5-8c64-cd7d2c76c31b@blastwave.org> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:41:17 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/56.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 17:44:42 -0000 On 8/27/17 1:34 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > 11.1 (latest release) should run stable on the G5. I run current on > mine, dated back to March. Thank you ! I did a bit of digging and also found that the most recent should work fine. Therefore I will backup this unit because it has an old debian release on it and quite frankly the debian folks dropped the support on ppc64 it seems. Either way it is a struggle to work with. I am hoping the the freebsd world is far better. What is the compiler of choice on freebsd? I am goiung to guess gcc is available as well as some of the usual gnu tools for a toolchain. I did download the FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso.xz file from a mirror but it looks way way too small. Shouldn't the install DVD be around 3GB in size? Uncompressed this is only 878MB. Dennis