Two minor issues with BETA-3 on PowerPC XServe

Michael Schmiedgen schmiedgen at gmx.net
Tue Dec 3 11:03:41 UTC 2013


Hi,

I installed BETA-3 powerpc32 on G4 and powerpc64 on G5 XServe. During
the installation there were two minor issues:

- XServe G4, powerpc32: After a few seconds fetching base.txz, a warning
   showed up in console that max nmbclusters were reached. I manually
   raised kern.ipc.nmbclusters from 768 to 1024 and restarted the
   installation. On amd64 9.2-RELEASE nmbclusters are set to 25600 BTW.

- XServe G5, powerpc64: After fetching distfiles checksum for base.tgz
   did not match. I extracted the distfiles manually in another console.

So finally I got all these things installed, but just let you know in
preperation for release.
This was my first contact outside the FreeBSD i386/amd64 domain for more
than 15 years. I was rather surprised that the installation process
worked so well for non mainstream hardware.

Cheers
   Michael


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