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(203.161.72.123) by tara2.wa.amnet.net.au with SMTP for ; 25 May 2006 20:08:18 -0000 X-Envelope-To: james@icionline.ca Message-ID: <44760E6A.7050207@eftel.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 04:07:06 +0800 From: Adrian Pavone User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060525) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Earl References: <772f0d7b0605251247s3391137bv32f0122512402c8e@mail.gmail.com> <44760AE8.6040808@eftel.com> <772f0d7b0605251305p5462aef6kd258ab5294d27d63@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <772f0d7b0605251305p5462aef6kd258ab5294d27d63@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Mac experiences 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: Thu, 25 May 2006 20:08:44 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ahh, There we go, a happy ending. James Earl wrote: > Thanks for your suggestions. I found some more intel mac posts in > freebsd-current. > > On 5/25/06, Adrian Pavone wrote: > 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 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 > getting >>> >FreeBSD installed onto an Intel Mac, and if you could share any >>> >experiences or development plans? My 6.1-RELEASE installation CD > gets >>> >just past the boot menu and then stops. 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