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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:53:22 +1000 (EST)
From:      andrew@ugh.net.au
To:        wellsian <wellsian@caffeine.com>
Cc:        cjclark@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002210941140.30857-100000@beebite.ugh.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002201351000.31200-100000@boris.netgate.net>

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On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, wellsian wrote:

> Andrew, I'm betting Lismore hasn't worked out support for fbsd 4 yet. 3.x
> works, right? There are probably plenty of changes from 3.x to 4 that
> break their "special-casing". Send Lismore a note.

Nah...3.x installs but dosn't boot. 4.x dosn't install. I have been told
that there is a fix available from BlueLabel so I just have to wait for
them to send it to me.

> intended. An Intel cpu would have similar trouble emulating your Mac's
> PPC.)

I'm sure my PPC will do intel code far faster than any puny intel chip
could run PPC code ;-)

> If you really want to run xBSD, choose one that has native PPC
> support for your model of Mac.

Alas that is precisely none...not even LinuxPPC runs on iBooks yet. Darwin
will obviously be ported by the time MacOSX is released later this year
but until then....

> value, and the cost of the box, is in the HI. It strikes me as sad to make
> your Mac into an emulator for intel 'nixs. Unless it's just to screw
> around of course! :)

When MacOS X is released I wont have to but until then I need a UNIX for
uni among other things. If only the uni would just install a wireless
network - then I could just ssh. I have FreeBSD on intel at home...but of
course telnet from my mac so I have drag and drop :-)

Thanks,

Andrew



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