Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:37:16 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: running FreeBSD on an iMac Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2212201107030.24756@bucksport.safeport.com>
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By this i mean as the base OS, not a VM. My neighbor gave me an iMac that was old enough where the current versions of OS/X will not run on it. I have FreeBSD CDs from 3.5 --> 9.2. Sadly I stopped making CDs at that point. It took some repeated running of the disk utility but I got rid of OS/X and the system will willing to boot my 9.2 CD. My first attempt after thinking how cool is this, was to make a 12.3 image on on of the older 700MB Cds. This from the same CD set I made the 9.2 one many years ago. The sysutils port worked perfectly as I could both mount it and boot on various Dells I use. The iMac could not accept this CD. So I installed 9.2 which works perfectly. freebsd-update will not attempt 9.2 --> 12.3. Any way to get 10.x or 11.x to see if that will update? Google has not, so far, turned up any 10 or 11 CDs in the wild. My current attempt is to build 12.3 from source. Any ideas most welcomed _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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