From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 21 17:11:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19652 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:11:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19637 for ; Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:11:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06175; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:41:13 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA01943; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:41:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980222114112.15775@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 11:41:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Krebbs , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Compatability References: <19980222002511.AAA5045@[12.68.160.142]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <19980222002511.AAA5045@[12.68.160.142]>; from John Krebbs on Sat, Feb 21, 1998 at 07:28:31PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 February 1998 at 19:28:31 +0000, John Krebbs wrote: > > Greetings. I'll be attending College this fall, as a Computer Science > Major. We are required to obtain a copy of FreeBSD for use during the > spring semester. Now, I'm a devoted Macintosh user, and would like to > purchase one for my college years. The problem is, FreeBSD apparently > doesn't run on it. Now, I've been thinking of buying VirtualPC, a program > from Connectix, in order to run Windows on my Mac. If I did so, would it be > possible to run FreeBSD from the Mac also? I don't know this product, so I can't say whether it would work or not. I'd be surprised if it would work. One way or another, I think it would be a very bad idea, though. It would certainly slow things down a lot, and you would probably end up with more problems than things are worth. I'd strongly recommend a second machine. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message