From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 20 01:22:09 2009 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 C2E02106566C for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:22:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1598FC12 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FB448BBF19; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:18:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:05 -0800 From: Jason To: Ed Jobs Message-ID: <20091120012104.GC5725@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <6C279C53-E7C8-4A6C-BDF7-CEE61C8B0FA6@gmail.com> <200911200318.36398.oloringr@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200911200318.36398.oloringr@gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootcamp? 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: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:22:09 -0000 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:18:36AM +0200, Ed Jobs thus spake: >On Friday 20 November 2009 02:17, David Rawling wrote: >> Hi Juan and welcome to the FreeBSD community. You might try VirtualBox, >> which is similar to VMWare Workstation but free and part of the ports >> tree. >> >> There's probably a package for it - try: >> >> pkg_add -r virtualbox >> >> However, you may struggle to install OS/X - Apple have some reasonable >> technical restrictions in place, and a licensing restriction also that >> prevents use on non Apple hardware. As a result you probably are not >> licensed to, and may not physically be able to, use OS/X on your new PC. > >well, since Juan mentioned bootcamp, i guess he wants to install freebsd on a >mac. correct me if i am wrong > > >-- >Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to >understand. Beyond this, there is a virtualbox installation dmg for MacOSX. It won't work on a "growing file system," for FreeBSD, but will on a hard limit file system size for the installation of the virtual machine.