FreeBSD 12.0 RC3 PPC report

2018-12-11 Thread Alex McKeever
It’s working fine on my eMac G4/1.25 GHz retail model. The CDE Desktop Environment is oddly broken, but I am pleased to report that most of the packages I’ve compiled have done so successfully unlike 11.1! Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone ___ freebsd-c

emac g4 1.25 GHz retail model won't boot FreeBSD 12 at all.

2018-11-12 Thread Alex McKeever
The CD or DVD show up fine in the device selection screen, but it won’t even boot the disc. What changed from 11.2 to 12.0 in regards to PowerPC Macs that are 32 bit? A much needed answer would be appreciated. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 ___ freebs

FreeBSD 12 PowerPC won’t boot at all.

2018-10-04 Thread Alex McKeever
Subject says it all, that and it inverts the boot selector when selected. Tested it on my eMac G4 1.25 GHz (Retail). Last version of FreeBSD that works for me is 11.1, as 11.2 doesn’t boot all the way (hangs on cryptosoft0) Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone ___

FreeBSD 12 PowerPC CD/DVD images, no boot.

2018-09-09 Thread Alex McKeever
I have a problem with trying to boot FreeBSD 12 on my eMac G4, 1.25 (Retail). It will not boot (inverts colors in the boot menu) Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.

2018-09-01 Thread Alex McKeever
a form of Ubuntu 12.04 loaded on it. Get Outlook for iOS On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:16 PM -0400, "John Kennedy" wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 07:58:16AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On 2 September 2018 at 05:25, Alex McKeever wrote: > >

Re: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.

2018-09-01 Thread Alex McKeever
send the exact command you run with the error message. Or all the significant output. Regards,Ronald Van: Alex McKeever Datum: 01 september 2018 19:50 Aan: FreeBSD Stable , FreeBSD Current Onderwerp: Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything. After compiling PKG, when I go to ports to

Failing to retrieve source tarballs for anything.

2018-09-01 Thread Alex McKeever
After compiling PKG, when I go to ports to compile anything (my eMac can run FreeBSD but not modern Linux due to the version of the Radeon GPU) it fails to retrieve any of the source tarballs for any of the software, desktop environments etc. I would like help to fix this, as I’d like to run som