Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: snip Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let us know Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys about fully abastracting the mini in software... back in a jiffy ;-) Actually VMWare

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread Tom Marchand
On Nov 25, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008, Ian Jefferson wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread George Hartzell
Bill Campbell writes: [...] I haven't tried FreeBSD on the Macs. [...] -STABLE runs almost flawlessly on an 8-core late 2008 Mac PRO. Sometimes hangs as it's booting and you need to give the snd_hda driver a couple of hints to get sound out, but otherwise it rocks. g.

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-25 Thread Kelly Martin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:08 AM, Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've seen

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008, Ian Jefferson wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-23 Thread John Almberg
On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I don't know the answer to your question, but don't think it's a crazy one. One of the most interesting things I've seen, lately, is a hosting company that uses stacks of Mac Minis running

FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Greg Groth
James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments.

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM +, James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-09 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
Hi, Has anybody had success using Parallels on the Mac? I have been using it to support windows but had GUI problems with FreeBSD (with X and xfce4). They do not support FreeBSD 6.2 (according to their documentation). Thanks, Arend Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 12:03:30AM

FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-08 Thread James Jeffery
Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments. I still have BSD on the

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-08 Thread Jack Barnett
James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on it so that i can keep up with college assignments.

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac

2007-11-08 Thread jekillen
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Jack Barnett wrote: James Jeffery wrote: Was wondering. Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no use for Tiger at the moment. At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-03 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/06/2007, at 8:02 PM, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 03/06/2007, at 10:26 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I

FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-02 Thread Richard Tobin
Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). -- Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-02 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 03/06/2007, at 2:05 AM, Richard Tobin wrote: Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on the

Re: FreeBSD on Apple Mac Mini?

2007-06-02 Thread Richard Tobin
Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)? I'm considering getting one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk, if that's reasonable). Yep, it works fine. I used boot camp to create a small boot partition on the internal drive, and it loads everything else

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-06 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 03 May 2006, at 11:38 PM, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-04 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 01:38 +0200, FreeBSD mailing list wrote: On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-03 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
On 29 apr 2006, at 15:28, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. You are right but this isn't my

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-05-03 Thread FreeBSD mailing list
On 04 mei 2006, at 01:51, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 5/3/2006 15:38, FreeBSD mailing list seems to have typed: Mac OSX can't be installed onto a UFS formatted drive as far as I know Most OSX programs won't run on it either http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106692 *** QUOTE

FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread Yousef Raffah
What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS) or is it HFS+? Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0? How about 6.1-RC? Can we write to that file system or only read at moment? Is it safe? I'm trying to find something in the /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES file but nothing is promising

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread John Cruz
I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. Yousef Raffah wrote: What is the status of reading/writing to Mac's file system (HFS) or is it HFS+? Are they supported in FreeBSD 6.0?

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. You are right but this isn't my case here :(, I have an external HD which has

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Mac File System

2006-04-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/29/06, Yousef Raffah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0400, John Cruz wrote: I don't know about HFS, but you can format your mac drives with UFS when you do a clean install of MacOS, at least then FreeBSD would be able to read them. You are right but this isn't my

FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Brian McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a real, current version of FreeBSD that will run on a G3 Mac? I've looked at both Net OpenBSD, but I'd rather stick with one OS for all my PCs. I know, that Darwin is basically the same

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Payne
I may be work but FreeBSD is an Intel, I haven't see a PowerPC version. I had to use OpenBSD. Darwin is what Mac OS X is base on, you can use OS X with fink, and use thounds of BSD programs. Payne Brian McCann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be a bit off topic,

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
While there is a Ports system for Darwin/OS X, called GNUDarwin, avoid it, as it is notorious for breaking the basic OS install without asking. Fink is a better alternative, it's pretty much a port of the Debian package management system, with somewhat improved source handling. As it dumps all

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Lucas Holt
There is a page on the freebsd website describing work on a PowerPC version, but it says they are almost ready to boot into Single user mood.. another words.. not done. It mentions that some of the code is in current, but doesn't really explain how you'd load it onto a mac, etc. Darwin has

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Brian McCann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a real, current version of FreeBSD that will run on a G3 Mac? I've looked at both Net OpenBSD, but I'd rather stick with one

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:09:39 -0700 Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Brian McCann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know of a real, current version of FreeBSD that will

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 14:21 US/Pacific, Stephen Hilton wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:09:39 -0700 Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe 10.3 is going to introduce a blessed ports system, which I'd imagine would immediately be adopted by Darwin. Just FYI. I have been following

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac G3?

2003-10-10 Thread Paul Beard
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 09:09AM, Mykroft Holmes IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While there is a Ports system for Darwin/OS X, called GNUDarwin, avoid it, as it is notorious for breaking the basic OS install without asking. or you can use the DarwinPorts collection, which has Apple