Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:55:24 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: "David S. Besade" <webmaster@machowto.com> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Little Update Message-ID: <43548E4C.9080809@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BF79E533.2266%webmaster@machowto.com> References: <BF79E533.2266%webmaster@machowto.com>
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Hi Dave, > I thought I would give the developers a little heads up on my progress > through Beta-3 to RC1. I know you probably have your own test machines, > however I have been waiting for a Tier 1 release since FreeBSD 4.4 and now > that I have the time to help.. I am going to try. ppc is still a ways off tier-1, but it'll get there one day. > ** > Machine Specs > ** > iMac DV Special Edition > 400Mhz G3 > 384MB PC100 RAM > Dual USB > Dual Firewire > 10/100 Ethernet > 8MB Rage 128 > Slot Load DVD Would you be able to post a dmesg for this system ? > ** > How I installed Ports > ** > I Just FTP'd into the FreeBSD Main server and downloaded ports.tar.gz. Then, > after installing wget, I used csup to install the source and update ports. > Works great. No Problems. If you all need someone to start going through > ports and test compiling everything, let me know, this is a local machine > and I can work on that and send in the logs for the failures. Go for it ! The main problems I've had with ports are ones with a machine-dependent component (e.g. clisp, emacs), and they're ones that'll probably need to be fixed by folks on this list and submitted to the port maintainers. > So Far everything has been stable, I am going to compile a optimized kernel > tonight to help with build speeds as I don't need the debug output to test > build. A kernel built without INVARIANTS and WITNESS will be a lot faster. > A Big Thank you to Peter & Crew for making this happen. Thanks for your support ! later, Peter.
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