Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-7 4:21 AM, Devin Ceartas wrote: I run openBSD 4.6 on intel mac minis as production web and email servers. Works great. Nothing special about the install unless you want to keep a mac partion. Put in the i386 disk, reboot. May have hold down c, I forget. The AMD64 CD would give the

Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-07 Thread Lars Nooden
On 2010-3-7 12:36 AM, John Hope wrote: Does any clear step by step documentation exist for installing OpenBSD on a Mac Mini? ... One way, not necessarily the best way, if you want dualboot, is * boot the OS X installation disk. * Partition the disk, leaving a FAT32 partition for OpenBSD.

Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-07 Thread John Hope
Thank you for both replies. It was much, much easier than I thought. Just cleared the disk via Disk Utility from my Mac OS X disk. Popped in my 4.6 CD and done a usual install. Worked perfectly! startx worked perfectly first time too! Thank you OpenBSD team/users! P.S: In my 4.6 CD booklet it

Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:50:51 + John Hope hopejoh...@googlemail.com wrote: P.S: In my 4.6 CD booklet it says: cd /cdrom/4.6 /packages/arch I think you've mistakenly added a space after the 4.6. Or am I missing something? I just checked the official 4.6 release CD set and booklet. Yes,

OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-06 Thread John Hope
Hello, First - please excuse my lack of knowledge if it is completely obvious. I have the old Intel Mac Mini currently running Mac OS X Leopard with Bootcamp. The whole disk is currently dedicated to Leopard and no other operating systems exist. I would like to use my Mac Mini as a small home

Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini

2010-03-06 Thread Devin Ceartas
I run openBSD 4.6 on intel mac minis as production web and email servers. Works great. Nothing special about the install unless you want to keep a mac partion. Put in the i386 disk, reboot. May have hold down c, I forget. I think there are two partion options and I fond I works best