Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 10:27:26 -0800 From: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> To: iamatt <iamatt@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mac mini Message-ID: <0EDDC6B0-22EE-4B26-9DA5-C2FB75E9F0BD@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEeRwNUcuev2rvUUztVpts7P3%2BaSQqKT_6ajiqc_jBfhwNzq6Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANMDHqd1b8eCR0a9L53i0LTp9v7L9WZc666buFhD8UdukxD%2BPQ@mail.gmail.com> <BE9CCAFD-C3EF-4340-A4B6-D706E6A897C3@lafn.org> <21136.62025.950336.994239@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1385308605.5007.51434733.4AEBDB8D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CAEeRwNUcuev2rvUUztVpts7P3%2BaSQqKT_6ajiqc_jBfhwNzq6Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Well, its not so much that as they run fine with whatever like Win/Lin = etc... But why invest in a Mini not to run OSX? Might as well buy cheaper and = better HW for that matter if you wanna run another OS. We've a few few Minis, not a fan. - aurf On Nov 24, 2013, at 9:35 AM, iamatt wrote: > Production servers on Mac minis? What kind of Mickey Mouse place = would use > those for real servers?! > On Nov 24, 2013 9:57 AM, "Mark Felder" <feld@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 >> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013, at 12:22, George Hartzell wrote: >>> Doug Hardie writes: >>>>=20 >>>> On 20 November 2013, at 10:09, Friedrich Locke < >> friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> Does anyone here run Open/FreeBSD on mac mini ? >>>>>=20 >>>>> Does the OS fully supports macmini hadrwared ? >>>>=20 >>>> I have a couple production servers using Minis running FreeBSD 9.1 >>>> and 9.2. Check the archives as I posted the procedures I used to >>>> install. Some current Minis require a bit of horsing around to get >>>> networking to work. I have never used a windowing system on them. >>>> I only use a dumb terminal for initial setup and then SSH in after >>>> that. >>>=20 >>> I've been running FreeBSD on a 2008 Intel 8-core Mac Pro (the tower) >>> for years, just bumped it up to the current 10-BETA3 (now that = Andriy >>> solved the ZFS/mmap bug I was fighting and I can trust my flac = tagging >>> pipeline again). >>>=20 >>> Works great. I'm running the gnome desktop using the nvidia binary >>> distribution to drive a 30" Dell monitor. >>>=20 >>> Root on Zfs, two disk mirror. Swapping directly onto partitions, no >>> mirror or ZFS involved. >>>=20 >>> I'm still depending on the BIOS emulation to boot and it only gets >>> triggered if you use MBR formatted disks, not GPT. That confused = the >>> daylights out of me for a bit. I'm not sure if the EFI (?) boot = stuff >>> works or not. >>>=20 >>> One time out of 4 it hangs early in the kernel starting up. Never >>> cared enough to get help tracking it down. >>>=20 >>=20 >> I know someone with the same model of Mac Pro but he's been in the >> process of moving. I'll see if I can convince him to install FreeBSD = on >> a drive and reproduce that hang. >>=20 >> When was the last time you ran OSX on it? There might be a >> BIOS/firmware/EFI update waiting. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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