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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:44:35 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Sysinstall looks good on Intel Mac
Message-ID:  <1152938675.72127.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <64D4BCE8-E148-4FD5-8A6E-3BBC70355C10@shire.net>
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On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:38 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 19:15 -0600, James Earl wrote:
> >> Thanks Maxim!  Is the built-in ethernet supported in current?  Might
> >> have to find me a usb ethernet adapter.
> >
> > It is supported using the SysKonnect Yukon II drivers found at
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz .
> >
> >>
> >> Oh, btw... I did go ahead and install FreeBSD, and not just admire
> >> sysinstall.  Somehow in my excitement I managed to wipe out my Mac OS
> >> X partition  :)
> >
> > You'll probably want to rebuild that since firmware updates will =20
> > require
> > it.
>=20
> I wonder if you'll be able to boot off a firewire disk to do updates...

Yes.  I had to do this for the latest firmware update since installing
FreeBSD somehow made it impossible to do so otherwise.  I had to build a
10.4.6 version of the OS on the firewire drive, but after that, I was
able to do the upgrade just fine.

Joe

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> Chad
>=20
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >>
> >> James
> >>
> >> On 7/14/06, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>> Actually with recent current you only need to disable apic. =20
> >>> Everything
> >>> else should Just Work[tm].
> >>>
> >>> Welcome to the FreeBSD on Mactel hardware clib! :-)
> >>>
> >>> -Maxim
> >>>
> >>> James Earl wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I just thought I'd let everyone know that I'm looking at the
> >>>> sysinstall screen on my Intel Mac Mini (Core Duo).  After using =20
> >>>> Mac OS
> >>>> X for the past couple months, sysinstall has never looked so =20
> >>>> good!  :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Based on this thread:
> >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-April/=20
> >>>> 062371.html,
> >>>> at the boot prompt I disabled psm, atkbd, and atkbdc, and apic.
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list
> >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
> >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-=20
> >>>> unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
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> >>
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> > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
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