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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:57:32 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting freebsd on a powermac g4 from a CD
Message-ID:  <20141121055732.GB56272@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org>
References:  <546E38E4.70305@gmail.com> <546E3959.5020904@freebsd.org>

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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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