Booting freebsd on a powermac g4 from a CD

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Fri Nov 21 05:57:32 UTC 2014


On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:56:25AM -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 11/20/14 10:54, Jukka Ukkonen wrote:
> > What might be the current official method or at least known
> > working method for booting FreeBSD on a PowerMac G4 from a CD?
> 
> You should just be able to insert the CD and hold 'C'. Does that not
> work for you? What model of G4 is this?

Alternatively, netbooting had always worked for me as described by Peter
here: https://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html

Once you have server parts set up, switching between different OSes or
distsets becomes very easy (and CDs are nuisance to handle anyways).

./danfe


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