From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 20 08:10:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17264 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gutenberg.uoregon.edu (gutenberg.uoregon.edu [128.223.56.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17225 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sharding@gutenberg.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (sharding@localhost) by gutenberg.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA23805; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:13:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 08:13:36 -0700 From: Sean Harding Reply-To: Sean Harding To: Dennis Favro cc: FreeBSD-Newbies Subject: Re: FreeBSD under emulation (on a Mac) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Dennis Favro wrote: > Ok.. Does anyone here know how well FreeBSD would behave running under a > PC Emulator on a 133Mhz Power Macintosh? Is it worth doing, or should I > give up now? I've never been able to get it to install properly. It crashes at a the same point in the installer every time (I've tried with 2.2.1, 2.2.5 and 2.2.6)...This is with VirtualPC. > WindowsNT is just disgustingly slow. I'd like to run a native UNIX > implementation for the Mac, but neither package (MkLinux or LinuxPPC) will Really? What machine do you have? Sean -- Sean Harding sharding@oregon.uoregon.edu|"It's not a habit, it's cool. http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~sharding/ | I feel alive." NeXTMail OK! | --k's Choice To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message