From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Feb 2 04:35:00 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F096F14D344B for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2019 04:34:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:43:6f73:7461]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gal.iecc.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 27E746DD47 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2019 04:34:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johnl@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 10324 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2019 04:34:56 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=iecc.com; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=2852.5c551df0.k1902; bh=9rmcuQmFCzjJWnem0luXOkcmfUZ3Ujwj/1hfwzbYXqU=; b=Z08ULRMIyvUJjo3UJy42nlLA6E0GQefsIMoq8vE7R3rdcoyk1BrTFVZibCgmVWpU+ZMN9vcaxCKUapNBaEh1uwiz6Qj9UJv987y2/w7rA5ftPj1Jo4hVd/5xVm91G35nVMxKmswFwPwi1pU1RqNhIjbEdHoanBQTyfXfiUTgMNIJ+w68BEEQd7aGLb9nowhDMKU7mrZefUy44Cd5viIEgN0/EvJaIqD3A21+YM4cR2Vt/9zS3hD12R0ij0VE9Glg Received: from ary.qy ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) by imap.iecc.com ([IPv6:2001:470:1f07:1126::78:696d:6170]) with ESMTP via TCP6; 02 Feb 2019 04:34:56 -0000 Received: by ary.qy (Postfix, from userid 501) id 577AF200D9F3C1; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 23:34:55 -0500 (EST) Date: 1 Feb 2019 23:34:55 -0500 Message-Id: <20190202043456.577AF200D9F3C1@ary.qy> From: "John Levine" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: wintermute24x7@icloud.com Subject: Re: FBSD On Mac Desktop Pro In-Reply-To: <3CB2D726-3DEC-4EF5-8C8B-50B190FFE078@icloud.com> Organization: Taughannock Networks X-Headerized: yes Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2019 04:35:00 -0000 In article <3CB2D726-3DEC-4EF5-8C8B-50B190FFE078@icloud.com>, M. P. via freebsd-questions wrote: >Hello I have Mac Pro desktop and want to install FBSD on it. I believe it is new enough for the AMD 64 >install. What is the best way to get FBSD on my system. I have had difficulty getting the image file on a >usb stick. Any solid tutorials someone know about? Unless you really really really want to run native FBSD, I'd suggest installing Virtualbox under MacOS and running FreeBSD inside Virtualbox. Works great, avoids all of the hardware support issues. I have it set up so I can ssh into the virtual FBSD box from a MacOS terminal line, and run X programs under FBSD that use the native XQuartz X server under MacOS. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly