How To install freeBSD PPC

Sean Welch Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org
Fri Mar 5 22:13:02 PST 2004


You must place the freebsd loader executable itself
under the tftp root level.

Specifically, place the file "loader" which is normally
found under /boot on a FreeBSD machine under your
directory /tftproot so that it will get served out to
your client Mac.  Of course be sure this is the loader
produced specifically for the powerpc version of 
FreeBSD.  Everything else should be under the directory
you specify as your system root to be served out via
NFS.  Specifically in your case this would be your
/ppc-root-latest directory.

A word of caution -- you are attempting to follow
directions for setting up a server which are intended
for configuring a FreeBSD server.  You have done this
under OS X instead.  I do not know if the FreeBSD 
loader is capable of reading an NFS export hfs+ 
formated volume.  Also, my understanding is that the
Apple version of UFS is incompatible with the FreeBSD
(much more standardized) version.  In other words, it
may not be possible to netboot FreeBSD from a Mac at
this time.

Anyone with more knowledge please chime in --
regardless I'd be interested in the outcome if you
would like to give it a try anyway, David.

Sean



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