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[209.85.128.174]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a5-20020ac844a5000000b003a68af60591sm7878895qto.70.2022.12.20.10.22.13 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:22:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-yw1-f174.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-381662c78a9so180786867b3.7 for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:22:13 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a81:928a:0:b0:3ec:a0cb:550 with SMTP id j132-20020a81928a000000b003eca0cb0550mr719331ywg.3.1671560533522; Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:22:13 -0800 (PST) List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Tomek CEDRO Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:22:00 +0100 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on an iMac To: Doug Denault Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Nc4fv116jz3x1J X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:2607:f8b0::/32, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 7:02 PM Doug Denault wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, Tomek CEDRO wrote: > > How about booting installer from USB image ? > > I have the USB I used to install my current workstations. The system does > not recognize the format. But now that you say that, It is probably too > large. I will make a bootonly image on a small USB thanks. > > Also I found the FreeBSD archives. They go back to 10.0. Down load those > also. Aside from the stuff one learns doing things like this, the iMac will > be a truly great workstation, assuming Xorg will work with the video card. > Certainly not a given. You can DD memstick or mini-memstick directly on FreeBSD to USB Pendrive and it should boot :-) https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/13.1/ Alternatively you can also use USB Pendrive to boot various ISO images from a boot menu that is possible with Ventoy. You need to use Ventoy installer on a blank Pendrive using windoze or linux installer, it also have some neat features included, very handy tool :-) https://www.ventoy.net/ Why not use latest release 13.1 (soon 13.2) on that machine? -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info