FreeBSD/PPC 6.0-CURRENT miniinst.iso
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 Please note! This is a very preliminary, some would say
fatally retarted, proof-of-concept style release, so
all caveats apply.

1. Supported h/w

 G5 - nope.

 G4 powermacs - should work well with graphical console. serial
   console may be broken - I can't test it.

 G4 ibooks/powerbooks - internal keyboard/mouse not supported,
   external USB kbd works on non-USB2 systems.

 G3 ibooks - my 366Mhz toilet-seat hangs at probing non-existent
   USB port. Others should far better. External USB keyboard
   required.

 B&W G3 - works, but seems a tad flaky. The CMD646 PCI ATA controller
   seems to be the culprit. Built-in eth not yet supported,
   but a PCI fxp should work.

 revA-D iMac - works well, but built-in eth not yet supported.

 older than NewWorld (e.g. beige G3) - nope.


2. Prerequisites for install

 There should be a spare partition available to drop FreeBSD onto.
Two if swap is needed. You should know how to do this: if not, the
miniinst isn't for you :(


3. Booting the CD

 Holding down 'C' at boot time should work. However, it is known
*not* to work on my G4 eMac. In that case, drop into OpenFirmware
and run

0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0

 (note that this works on all platforms).

 This should come up in the familiar sysinstall menu.


4. Installation.

 Same as for other platforms, except that only existing disk partitions
can be used. Unfortunately, you have to remember the partition number
(or at least the size) of the partitions that were set up for FreeBSD.


5. First boot

 Here's the rub: OpenFirmware doesn't understand UFS2. It does understand
iso9660 and HFS+, so the loader must live on a disk/partition of that
type. So, you can either:

a) leave the CD in the drive, break into OpenFirmware at boot, and

 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:11

 (or hd:X, where X is the partition number that FreeBSD was installed on)

or

b) Boot into OSX and copy /boot/loader from the miniinst CD into / on
   OSX. Reboot, break into OpenFirmware, and

 0 > boot hd:loader hd:11

 (or as above, hd:X)