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FreeBSD/Wii

Hardware you'll need:

  • A Nintendo Wii with Homebrew loader
  • An SD card
  • Build a powerpc32 kernel with “options WII”
  • On the SD card, create a folder “apps/freebsd”
  • Create the following file “apps/freebsd/meta.xml”:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<app version="1">
  <name>FreeBSD 10</name>
  <coder>The FreeBSD Project</coder>
  <version>10</version>
  <release_date>today</release_date>
  <short_description>FreeBSD</short_description>
  <long_description>FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for modern server, desktop, and embedded computer platforms.</long_description>
</app>
  • Copy icon.png to the same folder.
  • Copy “$OBJDIR/sys/<KERNCONF>/kernel” to “apps/freebsd/boot.elf”
  • Use the Homebrew loader to boot FreeBSD.
  • wii.1345789855.txt.gz
  • Last modified: 2012/08/24 06:30
  • by RuiPaulo