Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:31:16 -0600 From: Sean Welch <Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: iBook powerpc FreeBSD Message-ID: <20040319233116.GA981@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> In-Reply-To: <3FD008EB.7050109@freebsd.org> References: <33096697.1070594219595.JavaMail.root@gonzo.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <3FD008EB.7050109@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello again! I just got your latest archive configured and my iBook is happily netbooting from it. I'm quite impressed! I swiped my girlfriend's (idle) iMac keyboard for use with syscons and I must say it works very well. I'm netbooting from my Inspiron 8000 again, this time from 5.2.1-RELEASE, using your latest ppc-root-latest.tbz2, loader, and kernel.dc as a basis for the iBook to run from. I've not had any issues with the loader finding the kernel. I notice that "shutdown -p now" seems to reliably shut the iBook down correctly (including power off). Nice! I created an entry in fstab for the cdrom and was able to mount and read a copy of FreeSBIE (if you haven't tried it this livecd is pretty cool -- looks like a great way to check out compatible hardware in the store). netstat complains about kvm -- I recall that was an issue earlier as well. Should it work or is this just something you've not got to yet? I have rpcbind, rpc.statd, and rpc.lockd running on the server but I'm still getting flock errors. Maybe I missed some configuration detail somewhere? I can edit files without issue but I'm prevented from successfully running either passwd or adduser. Any pointers? Anything in particular you'd like me to test? I'm planning to try netbooting my girlfriend's late model 17" 1.33 GHz powerbook this evening. How's the G5 hacking coming? I'm thinking a G5 notebook would be a nice replacement for my Dell sometime in the next year. ;-) Sean
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040319233116.GA981>