Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:28:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-current@lists.freebsd.org Message-ID: <18084.40711.665845.826349@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net> References: <18082.16126.915890.401438@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <46A37B6B.2050901@fnop.net>
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Rui Paulo writes: > > I'm about to plug the firewire disk into another box and install using > > make installworld DESTDIR=/firewire_disk, but this is the sort of > > thing that would really, really put off your typical FreeBSD would-be > > adopter. Is there anything we can do to fix this in the 7.0 > > timeframe? > > As a workaround try using a 6.2 CD. > > On a somewhat related note, how well does FreeBSD even work on > > an iMac? Can we suspend/resume SMP machines yet? > > No. Argh. Screwed at every turn. As it turns out, I can't even make my machine boot a "legacy" OS from a firewire disk. Both FreeBSD and Ubuntu lead to a "no bootable device" error when booting directly, and rEFIt also fails (with some interesting comments regarding how apple's firmware does not deal well with booting a legacy OS from firwewire). I ran out of time before I could shuffle MacOSX to the external drive to free up the internal one for FreeBSD. Oh well, back to MacOSX and dealing with X crashing every few weeks. Drew
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