From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 06:06:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C392C16A4DA for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C653A43D6E for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:06:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6D66KCt078486; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:06:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eMt7lz7tOYYO0MgYwLav" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:06:01 -0400 Message-Id: <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: FreeBSD Questions , "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:06:07 -0000 --=-eMt7lz7tOYYO0MgYwLav Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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)=20 > > run on a MacBook laptop. > >=20 > > Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be=20 > > interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted=20 > > mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of=20 > > them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rac= k=20 > > space at the moment for many new servers). >=20 > 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-eMt7lz7tOYYO0MgYwLav Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEteLJb2iPiv4Uz4cRApOsAJ96vN6wXRYMCw3ziVzFtnnf1qZ+6wCfVKOj 1sXQ6d7hqzsHGJxVr3EmIOo= =dIiI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eMt7lz7tOYYO0MgYwLav--