Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 06:08:59 -0500 From: <starikarp@yandex.com> To: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new hard drive Message-ID: <20181202060859.2edbff27@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <20181202091117.39b52b3c.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> References: <20181130054835.4caa4d32@yandex.com> <20181201113846.2f21e068.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> <20181201053854.1ef28af1@yandex.com> <20181202091117.39b52b3c.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
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On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 09:11:17 +0800 Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> wrote: > 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 Yes, I have FreeBSD also on iMac and I am using rEFIt boot manager but I didn't figured out how can I do this.
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