mac mini (intel)?

Thu Jul 13 06:06:07 UTC 2006

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

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