Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 00:58:23 +0100 From: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupoux@lineone.net> To: mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mac&Tosh Message-ID: <3CD1D29F.FCEDB40F@lineone.net> References: <3CD1A85C.CCAEC2E8@lineone.net> <20020502175219.A32601@rochester.rr.com>
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mpd wrote: > > Please don't top-post. > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:58:04PM +0100, Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote: > > Hello Aedan > > > > You cant run any kind of BSD on a Mac, unless you have some kind of PC > > emulation software (VMware, Virtual PC etc) but that would be extremely > > resource hungry and defeat the whole purpose probably > > Wrong. NetBSD will certainly run on this hardware. OpenBSD might, as well. > FreeBSD will not. From what I understood, "official" support on Apple's part for OSx was restricted to "real" G3 machines so it looks like openbsd might still have problems but Netbsd fully suported. Wouldnt know about the video card though. > > > > > Didnt realize Athlon was really part of the K6 family, but all AMD > > chips are good. Try the mobile mailing list for specifics on your > > model laptop though > > > > > > mark > > jmdupoux_@_lineone.net > > > > > > > I have a mac 8500, newer366 g3 card/xlr8 drivers/voodoo5 card-freebsd, > > > netbsd or openbsd? > > See above. > > > > Also a Toshiba 2540 CDS,athlon K6,is this a viable bsd box > > > Plan would be to use toshiba as router > > This should work fine with any of the BSDs, include FreeBSD. > > mike > -- > ___________________________________________________________ > > "YOU CAN NOT BUY AN EIGHT FOOT TALL CRIME FIGHTING > ROBOT UNLESS YOU ARE A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER!!!" > - Pokey the Penguin from "REQUEST DENIED THEN GRANTED" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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