Intel Mac experiences

[James Earl]

Thanks for your suggestions.  I found some more intel mac posts in
freebsd-current.

On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone <wingot at eftel.com> wrote:
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> James,
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> By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?
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> If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
> and any problems you are having should involve more detail so that we
> can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then "gets just
> past the boot menu and then stops." For example, does it freeze with
> only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
> of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)
>
> Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)
>
> James Earl wrote:
> > I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
> >
> > On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
> >> just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
> >>
> >> Ted
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of James Earl
> >> >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM
> >> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >> >Subject: Intel Mac experiences
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with getting
> >> >FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any
> >> >experiences or development plans?  My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD gets
> >> >just past the boot menu and then stops.  OpenBSD boots further but not
> >> >all the way, and Gentoo Linux LiveCD runs great.
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