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On 03/06/2007, at 2:05 AM, Richard Tobin wrote:

> Does FreeBSD run well on the Mac Mini (x86)?  I'm considering getting
> one to use for both MacOS and FreeBSD (booting from an external disk,
> if that's reasonable).

Yep, it works fine.  I used boot camp to create a small boot  
partition on the internal drive, and it loads everything else from an  
external USB drive.