Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 09:11:17 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> To: <starikarp@yandex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new hard drive Message-ID: <20181202091117.39b52b3c.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> In-Reply-To: <20181201053854.1ef28af1@yandex.com> References: <20181130054835.4caa4d32@yandex.com> <20181201113846.2f21e068.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20181201053854.1ef28af1@yandex.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 05:38:54 -0500 <starikarp@yandex.com> wrote: > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:38:46 +0800 > Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I asked long ago about hard drives and I decided and order the new > > > WD black 1TB for my iMac 11,1 where I have installed FreeBSD from > > > version 6?. > > > I decided to change HD by myself but the problem is (which I > > > didn't solved yet) how to put operating system on. First I hope > > > that I can just put FreeBSD CD in and install like on PC but I > > > heard that doesn't work. > > > Does anyone know a trick how should I solved the problem, please. > > > Now I have OS X (Mountain Lion) on and I use rEFIt as boot > > > manager. > > > > I place new disk either in a normal PC or an case with USB > > connection, format it there, give it labels, mount the partitions > > via the labels and copy every thing onto the new disk I require > > there. > > > > Of course, I adjust the /etc/fstab so that it mounts the disk later > > via the labels. > > > > Erich > > Thank you very much for the answer. I did replace HD in PC too but in > the Apple computers is much different and as I heard iMac cannot allow > install just FreeBSD or whatever OS different as OS X on the disk. here are some people running FreeBSD on the Macs. You just need a loader that is able to handle what ever is there as a BIOS replacement. All will be plain FreeBSD after the loader took over. Erich
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