(25-05-2020, 12:42 PM)ckester Wrote: My latest project is to install BSD on an old Mac Mini G4 I pulled from the back of a closet.

First attempt was with NetBSD 9.0-macppc, but I found the instructions too confusing. I guess I'm not as hardcore as I used to be. ;-)

Second try was with FreeBSD 12.0 powerpc. That went well; the install program knew what to do with this hardware and it wasn't any more difficult than with an x86 or amd64 machine. Then ran portsnap to fetch and extract the ports tree. But when I tried to build the ksh93 port I discovered that 12.0 was already end-of-life'd and therefore the port system refused to build anything. Arghh, I wish they'd told me that sooner!

So back to the FreeBSD site and grab the ISO for 12.1 powerpc. So far so good. Installed, and currently building ksh93.

Does anyone else have experiences with BSD on this hardware they want to share?

I have one of these in my closet. It's been out of service for a few years, but I used to run OpenBSD on it.