From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 26 10:15:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 293A1154 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x22d.google.com (mail-wi0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B89B12147 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hm4so4916725wib.6 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:15:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Xl2PDVATVOmfwWK85IX3zVJtMNmbELlm3/BbrhhtFxw=; b=vH5O87ktB+HDsQlhwagG1uD7llsacF763x2Am35MfODjRasWAtp0RiEmya96auEEcz cPlKdiGz8S9AmoxbST5Xnq+GOSyOxSrui2OkjuCxjQDaG43SXvvSUBOX41BhQ7BrzqXf gkxpBRMCdfRHwUWIgL7kFu63g82879QcFZtE7ztT3Kmsxyd0MZ/8Q11iVnW+ZNr1Cg3e +kNMt23wpvz9R3C1y6GNuIdTHhrlRYdVpjUjzojJvRwXWJ+3AA8yDaBD48daLIQHdnJ8 K5ZhdIJVVg6w8uQfc2dOPrTZEaKQ7oagZeY6iarqlpENwOAsDswyFR0L/wlNE+UtZlfp DE0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.20.102 with SMTP id m6mr17443721wie.22.1385460949080; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:15:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.227.106.9 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:15:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:15:49 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Installing FreeBSD 9.2 on a G5 without CD From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Pat=F3n?= To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.16 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:15:51 -0000 Dear list: I want to comment how finally I had installed a FreeBSD 9.2 in a G5 using an USB stick because I had detected some problems in certain instructions. 1) Download the image for memstick and powerpc architecture using wget (with filemanager the image have mistakes) 2) Connect the memstick and dmesg. In my case the memstick is connected in da0 3) dd if=FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-powerpc-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync 4) Check that image is OK with md5 5) Connect the memstick in the first USB of MAC and switch on the G5 with the keys COMMAND+OPTION+O+F or WINDOWS+ALT+O+F 6) Firmware is on with the symbol "0 >" Until here the instructions are common to many web pages BUT the following is different in my case: 7) write this: boot usb0/disk@1:2,\\:tbxi the instructions that certain web pages recommend are not appropriate in my case. I do not the reason. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Numerical Ecology Group. Ecology Unit. Faculty of Sciences. University of Extremadura Avda. Elvas s/n 06071 Badajoz, Spain https://sites.google.com/site/numericalecologyuex/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------