Not spam: serious inquiry. ISO release 500+MB 05052013 boot problem on qemu

[Michael Copeland]

I have a g4 mini with 512m and a dual g5 with 2G if you want them. They
both have current on them.


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks everyone.
> Sorry.
> If I can get a bootable 10 image, then I should be able to install ports
> by importing software.
> FreeBSD runs great on the older PowerMacs and can build with 400MHz and
> 384M RAM without choking. I had trouble setting up NetBSD. Linux needs
> 500MHz or better, 512M RAM, and the kernel has to be recompiled. I did
> OpenBSD but you need the same system requirements as Linux to compile.
> If I need Linux Compat then I'll see about using NetBSD as an additional
> machine.
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> Again, this is for an audio project for a friend.
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> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 05:42:04AM -0400, Michael Copeland wrote:
>> > If you're having that much trouble, I'll cross compile 10 for ppc32 and
>> > make dist for you. I'll host it on my server or I'll put it on box.com
>> > I'll mail it to you if you want. This is not a Tier 1 system, you're not
>> > going to get as much attention as you would from the other lists. These
>> > systems are beyond of life. [...]
>>
>> In Desmond's defense, I'd say that playing and relentlessly trying to
>> breathe a life into those old machines and make them run FreeBSD helps the
>> Project to build nice and more stable system overall.  While he probably
>> could have had more luck if he had switched to NetBSD or GNU/Linux, I
>> guess
>> we owe him something for being so keen on running FreeBSD.  That keenness
>> deserves him some help if/when we here (that is, on this list) can
>> provide.
>>
>> ./danfe
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