From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 02:41:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E64616A46C for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 02:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BADB13C4B3 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 02:41:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l8so321905nzf for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:40:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=TxM14m1iyAPvmOranNUeLtancEKB6RVPy1Cb5cOYAng=; b=NWrHEBq2EcY3l+MJGKXKSNpo3OydY0UL9lOyXXjOmNB7yn1nRwqZHfm0LyEtcso4K+ucDe593PZ1bxX8VyQW7ib2Q/qIzn1XGyJXWUj3JJN+JHpLkWQxyKWP97c6zIj4yINflCIqgPpoD8PmOQ3l01yHqIYLSfrMcZHixkK3yO0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ObBxekcxNl7nKAIK+vpRYLym2qa0TYslxNugX/g4ZDiZduHptVi2nZg0WXIRF9k210WzY7WYyr9n23Ie/JR6tHgoXfRJNQ5Qn49gJCGw2ytK4xcQL/Cc1DB1bnpiO9iZjbt2izSMYBh5+haFET2TJzb3t/bWhy30/QcLvQInnl0= Received: by 10.114.76.1 with SMTP id y1mr332372waa.1194576055744; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.17.10? ( [67.190.229.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 27sm1728972wra.2007.11.08.18.40.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:40:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4733C8B4.6070301@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:40:52 -0600 From: Jack Barnett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Jeffery References: <972994690711081603w72f861f1v60d85e74cc057c28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <972994690711081603w72f861f1v60d85e74cc057c28@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jackbarnett@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:41:03 -0000 James Jeffery wrote: > Was wondering. > > Can i put FreeBSD on a Quicksilver G4? > > I know it already has Tiger on it, which is BSD based, but i have no > use for Tiger at the moment. > At college were using Windows, and my old BSD box now has windows on > it so that i can keep > up with college assignments. > > I still have BSD on the box, but on another partition, i loved FreeBSD > 7, was really getting the > hang of it and testing out its web server capabilities, its a > nightmare switching the PC on and > off just to run a temp web server to test on. > > Is it possible or is there a better solution? > > Cheers > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You could also run FreeBSD inside of VMWare on your windows box. IIRC the VMWare software is free for Windows. There is also a port for FreeBSD (to run Windows in a VMWare with FreeBSD as the host) - but it hasn't been updated in a long time.