Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:13:02 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: wayneburkart@shaw.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can freebsd be installed on a new mac pro 8 core machine ? Message-ID: <4BBC307E.2060504@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <000c01cad60a$3e937a70$bbba6f50$@ca> References: <000c01cad60a$3e937a70$bbba6f50$@ca>
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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
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