Hardware Donation?

Alex Zepeda zipzippy at sonic.net
Mon Oct 13 17:27:01 PDT 2003


On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:50:43AM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:

> > I don't know if anyone is interested, but my parents just bought a new
> > mac, and I snagged their old powermac 6500/225.
> 
>  Thanks for the offer, but FreeBSD/PPC is targeting NewWorld machines at
> the moment.

Well I'd love to see FreeBSD work on the old-world machines.  I've got one more
thing I've been meaning to try to get the FreeBSD loader working.  If that doesn't
work... perhaps it would be possible to get FreeBSD to lay the kernel out in a
manner that the NetBSD loader would like.

>  It looks like it's possible to get NetBSD to run on this model if you
> want to try a *BSD.

Yeah, NetBSD runs on all PCI PowerMacs that don't have a PPC 601.

- alex


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