FreeBSD on a Mac

Arend P. van der Veen arend.vanderveen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 09:05:16 PST 2007


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 +0000, 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.
>>
>> I still have BSD on the box, but on another partition, i loved FreeBSD
>> 7, was really getting the
>> hang of it and testing out its web server capabilities, its a
>> nightmare switching the PC on and
>> off just to run a temp web server to test on.
>>
>> Is it possible or is there a better solution?
> 
> If you have enough disk space, you could either dual boot
> with MS-Win and FreeBSD, or you could run vmware and then
> install both FreeBSD and ms-win virtual machines on it.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
>> Cheers
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