FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 on a PowerBook G4

[Super Bisquit]

http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/

It may work.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <
torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> FYI, I just tried booting the FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 image (disc1) on a
> PowerBook G4[1]. This PowerBook has a broken optical drive, so I just
> dd'ed the image onto a usb memory stick, and booted that from Open
> Firmware.
> (Would it be possible to add an Apple boot partition to a usb memory
> stick so it could boot from the boot menu (option / alt key) on a Mac?)
> The image did work, I got to the main menu, and could select Fixit, but
> when I tried "livefs from usb", the installer claimed that there were no
> USB devices available. Full details on the FreeBSD page[2] for this
> machine.
>
>
> References:
> 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4
> 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/powerbook_g4_freebsd
> --
> Torfinn
>
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