PPC miniinst.iso available [ & Mini-Mac? ]

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Garance,

> However, I was also wondering if FreeBSD would run in the mini-Mac
> itself.  It has a 1.25-GHz or 1.42-GHz G4, ATA hard disk, 10/100
> ethernet, and a Radeon 9200 video card.  What are the chances that
> FreeBSD/PPC will work on it?
> 
> I suppose I should wait until they are at least shipping before I
> asked, but I wanted to get the question in early...    :-)

  I'd say there's a very good chance. My guess is that it's
Powerbook-style internals i.e. the Intrepid ASIC:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G4/15inchPowerBookG4/index.html

  And there shouldn't be any issues with that.

  later,

Peter.