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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 14:05:44 -0600
From:      "James Earl" <james@icionline.ca>
To:        "Adrian Pavone" <wingot@eftel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel Mac experiences
Message-ID:  <772f0d7b0605251305p5462aef6kd258ab5294d27d63@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44760AE8.6040808@eftel.com>
References:  <c6bf2550605241528o18e59768jbd2cd706079888c8@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEACFEAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <772f0d7b0605251247s3391137bv32f0122512402c8e@mail.gmail.com> <44760AE8.6040808@eftel.com>

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Thanks for your suggestions.  I found some more intel mac posts in
freebsd-current.

On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone <wingot@eftel.com> wrote:
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> James,
>
> By an Intel Mac, do you mean an i386? Or still a PPC?
>
> If you are referring to an i386, then the i386 install CD should work,
> and any problems you are having should involve more detail so that we
> can have a rough idea what is going on (something more then "gets just
> past the boot menu and then stops." For example, does it freeze with
> only the boot menu showing, do any other messages appear at the bottom
> of the screen after the boot menu, does the screen go blank, etc.)
>
> Ohh, and as Ted was saying, MacOS X is built on BSD :)
>
> James Earl wrote:
> > I'm not joking.  This is a FreeBSD mailing list isn't it?
> >
> > On 5/25/06, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Please tell me your joking, don't you know that MacOS X is
> >> just a commercialized version of FreeBSD?
> >>
> >> Ted
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of James Earl
> >> >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:29 PM
> >> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >> >Subject: Intel Mac experiences
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I'm just curious if there's any developers playing around with gettin=
g
> >> >FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any
> >> >experiences or development plans?  My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD get=
s
> >> >just past the boot menu and then stops.  OpenBSD boots further but no=
t
> >> >all the way, and Gentoo Linux LiveCD runs great.
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