Installation preparation questions

Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt at mac.com
Mon May 12 15:15:49 UTC 2008


On May 11, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Ross Gohlke wrote:

> Q1: What is the difference between
> www.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc-root-latest.tbz2 and
> http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc_iso/latest.iso and the downloads
> available at www.freebsd.org/where.html? Is ppc-root-latest.tbz2
> FreeBSD7.0?

I would expect those to be old. You probably want to use the
official releases and/or snapshots.

> Q3: Once I have set the mountvolume in OpenFirmWare (OFW), can the  
> machine
> be rebooted remotely?

The problem with FreeBSD and the Xserve in this particular
case is that you cannot power-cycle. You can do everything
else remotely.

FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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