From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 11:38:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1957016A422 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:38:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41DB643D70 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:38:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id k1MBbWu51193; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Ashley Moran" , Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:37:32 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200602220953.10997.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Importance: Normal Cc: elisabet lundvall Subject: RE: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:38:59 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Ashley Moran >Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:53 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Cc: elisabet lundvall >Subject: Re: Free BSD on Macintosh OS 10.3.9 ? > > >On Tuesday 21 February 2006 20:14, elisabet lundvall wrote: >> can I use free BSD in my mac? I have Panther in my iBook, but there is >> no BSD in it. >> I tryed once to get it from the CD OS 10.2.3, but since it was older >> than my updated >> system OS 10.3.9 the system crashed! I need the BSD to try out the >> Adobe program Indesign. >> Do you know what I should do? > >Elizabet, > >I think you're confusing the BSD Base System (installed as an >optional extra >off the OS X CD) with FreeBSD (a complete operating system). > >If you need the BSD base system you will need an up-to-date OS >X CD. But I've >found it won't work with a patched system, so you will at best have to >reinstall off a 10.3 CD. (or upgrade to 10.4) > I don't think that is true. I just installed an OSX Panther system on a new hard disk in my G3 and it works fine. But you must install the BSD base system first, before patching anything, right after installing osX. And you must install osx on a clean disk. Ted