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How did this pan out? would love to see a screenshot. Sorry, I haven't got much useful to add regarding mac-ppc, just adding my thoughts.

(25-05-2020, 03:04 PM)jkl Wrote: Installing NetBSD is certainly an interesting task. It pays off too: Once it works, you don't want to replace it anymore because you don't want to ruin your hard work. Similar to what I had experienced with Gentoo ... :-)

This. But It's only an interesting task the first time. Once you know the procedure for that piece of hardware it a matter or just backing up your config files and following the same process. Try to install on different hardware however keeps things "interesting" :-)

NetBSD might be highly portable, but its only as portable as your knowledge of the system and hardware. It took me a solid 36 hours and 3 failed attempts to first install NetBSD on my ThinkPad. But if I needed to reinstall again I could do it in 1.
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BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 25-05-2020, 12:42 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by jkl - 25-05-2020, 03:04 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 25-05-2020, 05:16 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by jkl - 26-05-2020, 01:35 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 26-05-2020, 03:30 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by jkl - 26-05-2020, 03:35 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 26-05-2020, 03:50 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 26-05-2020, 12:47 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by jkl - 26-05-2020, 01:10 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 26-05-2020, 03:53 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 26-05-2020, 10:48 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 28-05-2020, 04:28 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by jkl - 28-05-2020, 04:57 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by pfr - 14-08-2020, 02:38 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by ckester - 16-08-2020, 12:23 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by sschober - 31-12-2021, 01:50 PM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by gabe. - 08-04-2022, 11:52 AM
RE: BSD on a Mac Mini G4 - by Shrek - 09-04-2022, 06:53 PM