From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 20 15:53:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beebite.ugh.net.au (beebite.ugh.net.au [203.31.238.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00DF737C093 for ; Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:53:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6BBD01FA; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:53:22 +1100 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beebite.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52BDA1AC; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:53:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 09:53:22 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: wellsian Cc: cjclark@home.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, wellsian wrote: > Andrew, I'm betting Lismore hasn't worked out support for fbsd 4 yet. 3.x > works, right? There are probably plenty of changes from 3.x to 4 that > break their "special-casing". Send Lismore a note. Nah...3.x installs but dosn't boot. 4.x dosn't install. I have been told that there is a fix available from BlueLabel so I just have to wait for them to send it to me. > intended. An Intel cpu would have similar trouble emulating your Mac's > PPC.) I'm sure my PPC will do intel code far faster than any puny intel chip could run PPC code ;-) > If you really want to run xBSD, choose one that has native PPC > support for your model of Mac. Alas that is precisely none...not even LinuxPPC runs on iBooks yet. Darwin will obviously be ported by the time MacOSX is released later this year but until then.... > value, and the cost of the box, is in the HI. It strikes me as sad to make > your Mac into an emulator for intel 'nixs. Unless it's just to screw > around of course! :) When MacOS X is released I wont have to but until then I need a UNIX for uni among other things. If only the uni would just install a wireless network - then I could just ssh. I have FreeBSD on intel at home...but of course telnet from my mac so I have drag and drop :-) Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message