redundant webpages

[Maurice Andres]

Thanks.

I'm excited.  As I will be looking for a OS X replacement ([I'm tired 
of how OS X runs on an old computer] on a imac DV 400 mhz), I'm will be 
looking to run my peripheries such as my scanner with sane, printer 
with gimp-print, and my external burner with firewire (USB could be an 
option).  Open and Net bsds seem to be lacking in a lot of these areas, 
on the other hand it seems that FreeBSD has sane down packed.  Will the 
mac-ppc version of FreeBsd have support for the areas mentioned?  This 
is my concern.

I read many of the correspondence at the mail archive.  I also read the 
installation guide but I'm afraid that installing is not an option 
quite yet as it suggests to only install over a non-HFS+ partition 
("free space" as created by disk utility).  I have no such partition 
but only HFS+ and linux ext3 partitions.

Andres

PS-By not a complete OS, I take it there is no desktop environment yet.



On 30-Oct-04, at 3:57 PM, Shane Harbour wrote:

> The ISO is located at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan.  There's also 
> some other things there too.  Some people have had great luck with it 
> and others not so great luck.  It mostly just depends on your 
> hardware.  You also won't get a full blown ready to use OS.  The port 
> is still in the works.  I highly recommend you read through the 
> FreeBSD-PPC mailing list archives to see what hardware seems to work 
> and what doesn't.  Some say it's easier for them to cross-compile on 
> one machine and do a network boot.  At any rate, read the archives.  
> They have a lot of good information in them.
>
> Shane
>
> On Oct 30, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Maurice Andres wrote:
>
>> Thanks for getting back.
>>
>> Great new to hear?  But is it stable?  Does it boot into full usable 
>> OS? And where is it kept?
>>
>> Andres
>>
>> On 30-Oct-04, at 8:34 AM, Shane Harbour wrote:
>>
>>> The pages located on webpagearchitects.net are only temporary.  They 
>>> were posted there so everyone could review them before submitting 
>>> them to replace the old pages currently on the FreeBSD site.  The 
>>> new pages were submitted to Peter Grehan who has worked diligently, 
>>> along with others, on the PPC port.  At the moment, he is away with 
>>> limited e-mail access until about November.
>>>
>>> As for a bootable CD, quite a few individuals have FreeBSD running 
>>> on a myriad of PPC hardware.  There is a bootable ISO or you can 
>>> create your own.
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>> On Oct 29, 2004, at 9:54 PM, Maurice Andres wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm not subscribing but why don't you guys consolidate info since 
>>>> you people have two pages on mac-ppc:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ppc.html
>>>> http://www.webpagearchitects.net/freebsd-ppc/
>>>>
>>>> It might give the image that the project is not dead and provide 
>>>> some insight into BSD enthusiasts.  This is important 'cause the 
>>>> 2002 page always shows up under a search from the main site and not 
>>>> the up to date june 2004 page.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> PS- How far is a stable bootable CD?  I joke with friends that this 
>>>> project is a testing ground for apple OS X and therefore there will 
>>>> never be a FreeBSD mac-ppc release. The implication 'cause apple 
>>>> would not encourage it since that is its prime source.
>>>>
>>>> Chascon
>>>>
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>>>
>>
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