Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:06:01 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? Message-ID: <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) > > run on a MacBook laptop. > > > > Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be > > interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted > > mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of > > them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack > > space at the moment for many new servers). > > Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? > (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Yes, with Bootcamp. However, they cannot boot FreeBSD automatically (or at least I haven't found a way to do it). You must hold the Option key down at boot-time to select the alternate OS. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEteLJb2iPiv4Uz4cRApOsAJ96vN6wXRYMCw3ziVzFtnnf1qZ+6wCfVKOj 1sXQ6d7hqzsHGJxVr3EmIOo= =dIiI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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