Bootcamp?

Jason jhelfman at e-e.com
Fri Nov 20 01:22:09 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:18:36AM +0200, Ed Jobs thus spake:
>On Friday 20 November 2009 02:17, David Rawling wrote:
>> Hi Juan and welcome to the FreeBSD community. You might try VirtualBox,
>> which is similar to VMWare Workstation but free and part of the ports
>> tree.
>>
>> There's probably a package for it - try:
>>
>> pkg_add -r virtualbox
>>
>> However, you may struggle to install OS/X - Apple have some reasonable
>> technical restrictions in place, and a licensing restriction also that
>> prevents use on non Apple hardware. As a result you probably are not
>> licensed to, and may not physically be able to, use OS/X on your new PC.
>
>well, since Juan mentioned bootcamp, i guess he wants to install freebsd on a
>mac. correct me if i am wrong
>
>
>--
>Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to
>understand.

Beyond this, there is a virtualbox installation dmg for MacOSX. It won't
work on a "growing file system," for FreeBSD, but will on a hard limit 
file system size for the installation of the virtual machine.


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