Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:56:44 -0700 From: Jon Rust <jpr@vcnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question About Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607145644.A38560@mail.vcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <393EA9F9.8C20FCE7@home.com>; from RaymundoVega@home.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:00:57PM -0700 References: <20000607092604.23312.qmail@hotmail.com> <393E177E.EC304959@home.com> <20000607163555.B607@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000607092402.A93451@mail.vcnet.com> <393EA9F9.8C20FCE7@home.com>
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 01:00:57PM -0700, Raymundo M. Vega wrote: > Jon Rust wrote: > > > > Why people who obviously know nothing of the Mac try to give advice on > > them is beyond me. > > because i know the difference of hardware, software and how it > is related to an operating system, any operating system. Apparently not. > > VirtualPC emulates PC hardware copmletely. > > Wrong answer, it emulates "pentium" so you can use *any of 5* operating > systems *provided in software* seamlessly on a Mac OS computer. see VP3 > specifications. It emulates a Pentium, yes. It also emulates a sound card, an ethernet card, the motherboard, serial controllers... Yes, Connectix sells 5 different flavors of VPC. Users are in no way limited to those 5 choices though. Win 3.1, Win95/95, Win NT, Win 2000, BeOS, and more than one Linux. There's been one report of successful FreeBSD install on VPC2, but I haven't tried it myself. OS/2 has had success as well. Is that more than 5 yet? No? Okay, I just started the install for OpenBSD x86. A few apm0 msgs, but working otherwise. Back to the original poster's question: there doesn't appear to be a way to boot off a CD with VPC. Furthermore, something in FreeBSD's boot disk hangs the boot process. So I guess Raymundo's at least patially right in that FreeBSD and VPC don't play nice together, but it's not for the reasons he gives. jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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