Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 04:26:18 -0500 From: Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stupid questions on installing Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOuk%2ByVL3V5xadiw2q1RA091pfNEZ-VBDAjq5FG1aw7JKA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com> References: <CA%2BWntOu16qqdiZNrWrtdHCkx8s%2BDGw=n_PT7kKYGnibVv%2Bp8UA@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOunumxMiBRs6RZcj4R1NJSN-rCB8fq1idnB0JR0oLVp%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> <50F66C64.9090008@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:01 AM, matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com> wrote: > On 01/16/2013 00:05, Super Bisquit wrote: >> I'd like to know if anyone has used the memstick image to >> install FreeBSD to a PowerpC32 machine and what was done to the usb >> device with the dd command. >> > Yes, G4 MDD FW400. Also boots OS9, NetBSD, OpenBSD this way. OS X might > work, didn't care to try. > > pv -ptre memstick.img | dd of=/dev/da0 obs=2M > > pv just for the progress bar because I hate dd's reticence. 2M because > it was fastest for that particular usb stick. Otherwise nothing fancy. I'll use the reference that you have here to run the dd command. Still, did you need to format it to hfs or not? > > Booting with option sometimes worked. Sometimes claim failed or it would > spit out other nonsense (I thought adler was a german bird...) > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\\:tbxi caused screen corruption > for a moment and sometimes worked > Booting with /pci@f2000000/blah/disk@1:,\ppc\boot1.elf worked every time > Where blah is usb@X[,Y] > > Since you can redirect OF to telnet, at least this stage can be easier > if you can blind type those commands and have a telnet client available > on another machine. Will I need to add the dhcp server to the second machine in order to run the telnet interface? > > Naturally installing is quite slow over usb 1.1, with a random NEC based > USB2.0 card I was also able to install much faster. > I know that debian has a ttyUSBX available but that doesn't seem to be the issue with FreeBSD. > No idea about serial console, I only have the weird internal modem > connector and I haven't figured out how to get a TTL console on it yet. > No pinout appears available, although the traces seem to indicate some > likely pins... > > Do you have something like a G4port on the Titanium? I assume G4 modem > header 5v/3.3v TTL maybe? I'm not sure. I'll see what the OF commands say when I run them at the forth prompt. > > Matt > >
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