Installation Instructions?

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 22 05:02:37 PDT 2003


Hi Andrew,

> I think I have done enough "thinking" of installing FreeBSD recently,
> and I should actually try and install it :)  I have been looking
> around, and I can't actually see any installation instructions!  Come
> to think of it - I can't even find anywhere to download it!
> 
> Are there any FreeBSD/PPC install guides anywhere?  Do I have to
> install it on a x86 machine and cross-compile?

 I'll try and put some instructions together, as well as putting up a
-current tarball. Basically, you can netboot, and either run diskless 
or untar a dist onto an unused partition (after newfs'ing it).

later,

Peter.


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