Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:22:00 +0100 From: Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> To: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: running FreeBSD on an iMac Message-ID: <CAFYkXjkW-mNzqt=%2B_B0f7HJnkzCiGdFoMrr3aiPoFZ3EOWbUAw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2212201257040.24756@bucksport.safeport.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2212201107030.24756@bucksport.safeport.com> <CAFYkXj=e_5AjoOcyGDS84w55A4ZWFgxQg=ZXj9B4u_2StTkCZQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.2212201257040.24756@bucksport.safeport.com>
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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
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