I didn't realise that was the case but you are correct! i386 seems to be a good start it seems - upon some searching around and with some pointers from brynet@ I I installed i386 from CD. It runs well. However I would love to be able to take advantage of the underlying amd64 architecture. Bryan suggested booting i386 but hotswapping to the amd64 disc early on. So I am now off to buy some DVD's as the amd64 install77.iso doesn't actually fit on a CD!
14 Oct 2025 08:44:39 Lloyd <[email protected]>: > requiem. wrote: > >> I recently picked up an old A1181/Macbook4,1 Early 2008 Core2Duo T8100 >> "polycarbon" Macbook, [1] to see whether I could run OpenBSD on it. > > weren't macs of this era cursed with 32-bit EFI? can you boot i386? > > Regards > Lloyd
