How To install freeBSD PPC

[David S. Besade]

on 3/5/04 11:12 PM, Sean Welch at Sean_Welch at alum.wofford.org wrote:

> 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
> 

Sean:

Open Firmware can't understand UFS, that¹s why the loader needs to be on an
HFS+ partition, it was my understanding you could do this from a Mac?

I am really confused and out of CD-R's so I need some help ;)

~Dave