Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 08:30:49 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? Message-ID: <1152793849.84438.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <E10B53C2-651C-4985-B7BA-0EE885B62C3D@shire.net> References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <E10B53C2-651C-4985-B7BA-0EE885B62C3D@shire.net>
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--=-MGe9JEqw+uDTNq5bqUwK Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 00:54 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > > 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 =20 > >>> 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 =20 > >>> mounted > >>> mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick =20 > >>> several of > >>> them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short =20 > >>> 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 =20 > > automatically (or > > at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option =20 > > key > > down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. >=20 > Have you tried BAMBIOS (<http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/=20 > legacyboot/> ?) This sounds a bit like what Bootcamp already provides. However, it doesn't seem to be available currently to try. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-MGe9JEqw+uDTNq5bqUwK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEtjz5b2iPiv4Uz4cRAsuaAJ4x35RxlhDq6YpwIfqaXznlAZMLOACdHGx7 wt4QYjQRcJsmsRyUE6DgiMA= =KKBk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-MGe9JEqw+uDTNq5bqUwK--
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