Where would I look to find release 8.1 iso files ?

[Justin Hibbits]

On Aug 27, 2017 12:41, "Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

On 8/27/17 1:34 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
>
> 11.1 (latest release) should run stable on the G5. I run current on mine,
> dated back to March.
>


Thank you ! I did a bit of digging and also found that the most recent
should work fine.  Therefore I will backup this unit because it has an
old debian release on it and quite frankly the debian folks dropped the
support on ppc64 it seems.  Either way it is a struggle to work with. I
am hoping the the freebsd world is far better.  What is the compiler of
choice on freebsd?  I am goiung to guess gcc is available as well as
some of the usual gnu tools for a toolchain.


Yeah we currently use GCC for PowerPC. Llvm is coming along but still needs
some care.



I did download the FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso.xz
file from a mirror but it looks way way too small. Shouldn't the install
DVD be around 3GB in size?  Uncompressed this is only 878MB.

Dennis


That sounds right. We don't have previously packages for PowerPC right now,
so the DVD is my smaller than for x86.

- Justin