Re: mac mini (intel)?
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) run on a MacBook laptop. Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Anyway, their size is nice, but both the PPC and Intel Minis use rather pokey 5400 RPM laptop drives, so their I/O performance is mediocre. They'd make better candidates for CPU/memory-bound tasks. Also, it's no fun at all to take them apart to swap in a new drive or more memory. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac mini (intel)?
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) run on a MacBook laptop. Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Yes, with Bootcamp. However, they cannot boot FreeBSD automatically (or at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option key down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: mac mini (intel)?
On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:01 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) run on a MacBook laptop. Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) With Boot Camp you have at least pieces of the PC BIOS in emulation. Anyway, someone posted to the list that they have it booting on a MacBook (or MacBook Pro, don't remember) and had mouse pad issues. That would indicate that at least someone has gotten it to work... Anyway, their size is nice, but both the PPC and Intel Minis use rather pokey 5400 RPM laptop drives, so their I/O performance is mediocre. They'd make better candidates for CPU/memory-bound tasks. yes and no. I have heard feedback from others that say that the SATA 2.5 drives in tge intel minis actually perform quite well and are light years ahead of the PPC minis. But in my case, the mail store is mounted with nfs and resides on a Solaris 10 machine with two RAID 6 on an Areca controller, mirrored together with ZFS. So the disk is only for the OS. Also, it's no fun at all to take them apart to swap in a new drive or more memory. I have the tools :-) . Trip to Home Depot solved that issue. I actually have a Mini but it is in use as an OS X development machine to test the intel versions of some software so cannot be touched to test FBSD. It is not too hard to open once you know the secret (and are just futzing with RAM). Took me 5 minutes once I had researched it on the net. Chad -- -Chuck --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac mini (intel)?
On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) run on a MacBook laptop. Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Yes, with Bootcamp. However, they cannot boot FreeBSD automatically (or at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option key down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. Have you tried BAMBIOS (http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/ legacyboot/ ?) Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mac mini (intel)?
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 00:54 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) run on a MacBook laptop. Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Yes, with Bootcamp. However, they cannot boot FreeBSD automatically (or at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option key down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. Have you tried BAMBIOS (http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/ legacyboot/ ?) This sounds a bit like what Bootcamp already provides. However, it doesn't seem to be available currently to try. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
