From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 7 07:13:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E87106564A for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:13:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF26E8FC16 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:13:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o377D2d2019034 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 7 Apr 2010 08:13:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BBC307E.2060504@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:13:02 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wayneburkart@shaw.ca References: <000c01cad60a$3e937a70$bbba6f50$@ca> In-Reply-To: <000c01cad60a$3e937a70$bbba6f50$@ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.0 (2010-01-18) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can freebsd be installed on a new mac pro 8 core machine ? 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: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:13:09 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/04/2010 05:24:41, Wayne Burkart wrote: > I have a new Mac Pro 8 core desktop machine. I want to install an os that > will let me install Cpanel and whm so I can use it as a server. Will FreeBsd > install on the new intell based pro macs ? Pleasea advise. That's a clear "maybe" -- FreeBSD works on some Macs, but not all: for instance it has trouble with the latest Mac pro laptops. Whether this applies to the desktops as well I don't know. I suggest downloading either the USB installer image, the livefs CD or the DVD image; cutting the appropriate media and seeing if you can get your machine to boot and run from that media. If so, then you should be pretty safe installing FreeBSD onto the hard drive. I'd try 8.0-RELEASE first, and failing that, one of the 9.x snapshots (although I doubt you'll get cPanel to support running under 9.x) Note that you can partition the hard drive using Bootcamp without wiping out an existing MacOS X installation. You can then install FreeBSD instead of Windows -- this apparently works quite well, although you'll have to put up with MacOS always referring to the other partition as containing "Windows". Or you can install FreeBSD as a guest under VirtualBox, although that's going to needa bit of finessing to make the VirtualBox guest visible from the external network. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAku8MH4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwN4QCeLiggPRMAasFnURvwEss8KJZy 02AAnRHu7omXDxeg3iJU6V3bMvlPDdDa =YbyP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----