FreeBSD ppc livecd? disk 1?

[Ben Kaduk]

Hi all,

I had to reboot my iBook G4 today, so I thought I'd try booting FreeBSD on it
and see how well it worked; I also wanted to see if I could find out
any information
about the sound card in it, as there was a request on this list several months
ago for that information that I believe is yet unanswered.

However, I did not succeed in getting a livecd to work -- my understanding
is that (for most architectures, at least) disc 1 should be a live CD and
contain the standard base system utilities.  However, sysinstall from both
a 7.0-beta1 and a 6.2-release disc 1 did not seem to think the disc was
a live CD.  Is this the expected behavior?  I presume so, but want to
check before I try to cross-build a pciconf binary to examine the sound
card.

Also, a livecd would be nice just to see how well FreeBSD plays with
the hardware; if I do need to do a reinstall at some point, it would be
nice to put FreeBSD on the machine as well as OS X.

Thanks,

Ben Kaduk