From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 10 20:29:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4364C1065673 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:29:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@fahrners.de) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1432A8FC22 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@fahrners.de) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E7131634E; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:29:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:29:02 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: WFu57eqGeXfuO7hTtQRccrbkur03+nY6MOCAFscWbKZ9 1239395341 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (ppp-93-104-111-236.dynamic.mnet-online.de [93.104.111.236]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BCC551825E for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:29:01 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <8e0ed1e00904100941n83a868j6b943378bd1e62d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <6F7FDA78-ED86-4319-B25D-DA532FBB5716@fahrners.de> <8e0ed1e00904100128u6b548ec6w811db700c75f8480@mail.gmail.com> <8e0ed1e00904100827k625f14c0j1da8522d0439641@mail.gmail.com> <8e0ed1e00904100941n83a868j6b943378bd1e62d7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6E85EC82-0219-4BF4-9FC5-C794F2D23293@fahrners.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jochen Fahrner Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:28:56 +0200 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on iMac G3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:29:04 -0000 Hi Gerald, > > Now my G3 is compiling Xorg from the ports, ethernet is working > fine. :-) > > :) Happy FreeBSDing on your PPC! The G3 was now compiling 7 hours on Xorg. It was somewhere at the adobe fonts, when my son had to go to bed, I had to interrupt the make, shutdown the Mac and move it to another room. There I booted again, but always in the middle of booting it crashed and did a reboot. :-( Maybe the 7.2 beta is not very stable. Now I give it a second try by installing 7.1. I have to begin at zero, because the installation formats my partitions and installs all from scratch. Now I have to compile Xorg again, binary packages are not available for ppc. :-( That's no fun! :-( I will try the compile over night, but I think it will interrupt somewhere asking me for options. If 7.1 has the same boot problems tomorrow, I will try install Fedora or Gentoo next. I'm really a friend of FreeBSD, but if the port to ppc is such instable I must look for alternatives.