From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Sun Aug 27 18:09:39 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B737DF513E for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:09:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhfb01.myregisteredsite.com (atl4mhfb01.myregisteredsite.com [209.17.115.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51C0D7DFF1 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:09:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob14.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob14.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.52]) by atl4mhfb01.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7RI9axB006937 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:09:36 -0400 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob14.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id v7RI9QxX026542 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:09:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 15405 invoked by uid 0); 27 Aug 2017 18:09:26 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.103.29 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.9?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.103.29) by 0 with ESMTPA; 27 Aug 2017 18:09:26 -0000 Subject: Re: Where would I look to find release 8.1 iso files ? To: Justin Hibbits Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML References: <775bd926-9937-7022-0f51-cf0b745d04ea@blastwave.org> <2feb3b83-b2a9-42a5-8c64-cd7d2c76c31b@blastwave.org> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 14:09:25 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/56.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 18:09:39 -0000 > Yeah we currently use GCC for PowerPC. Llvm is coming along but still > needs some care. Perfect. I will be doing a bootstrap of gcc 7.2.0 in any case. > I did download the FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso.xz > file from a mirror but it looks way way too small. Shouldn't the install > DVD be around 3GB in size?  Uncompressed this is only 878MB. > > Dennis > > > That sounds right. We don't have previously packages for PowerPC right > now, so the DVD is my smaller than for x86. Even more perfect. Stripped down and bare bones is just fine. So long as there is a console, very basic networking and ssh as well as gcc and some sort of termcap setup then I am fine. If I had it my way there would be a serial console at 9600 baud 8n1. No need for X. Yet. Dennis