From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 9:24:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54CCD37BA5D for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 13707 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Jun 2000 16:24:03 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:24:03 -0700 From: Jon Rust To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question About Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607092402.A93451@mail.vcnet.com> References: <20000607092604.23312.qmail@hotmail.com> <393E177E.EC304959@home.com> <20000607163555.B607@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000607163555.B607@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:35:55PM +0530 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why people who obviously know nothing of the Mac try to give advice on them is beyond me. VirtualPC emulates PC hardware copmletely. Just about any OS that will run on a PC, will run on VirtualPC running on a Mac. Here, let me help: it's like vmware for Macs. Better? As for the no floppy problem, I don't know if VPC supports booting off of a CDROM, but if it does you could go that route. jon On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 04:35:55PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Raymundo M. Vega said on Jun 7, 2000 at 02:35:58: > > Lord Lerkista wrote: > > > > > > Hi!! i use a Mac, and want to Install FreeBSD 4.0 in VirtualPC!! > > > but the problem is that my iMac don't have Floppy Drive!! =/ > > > > you can not do it, VirtualPC run PC programs for MSDOS, Windows. > > FreeBSD is a *real* operating system, let say it has to replace > > the OS in your Mac, but it will not run under the Mac OS. > > Moreover, FreeBSD won't run on the Mac. If you want unix on the > Mac, check out NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux. In all these cases, too, > you can install them as a separate OS but can't run them under the Mac > OS. > > R. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message