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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:35:55 +0530
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com>
Cc:        Lord Lerkista <lerkista@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question About Installing FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000607163555.B607@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
In-Reply-To: <393E177E.EC304959@home.com>; from RaymundoVega@home.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:35:58AM -0700
References:  <20000607092604.23312.qmail@hotmail.com> <393E177E.EC304959@home.com>

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Raymundo M. Vega said on Jun  7, 2000 at 02:35:58:
> Lord Lerkista wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!! i use a Mac, and want to Install FreeBSD 4.0 in VirtualPC!!
> > but the problem is that my iMac don't have Floppy Drive!! =/
> 
> you can not do it, VirtualPC run PC programs for MSDOS, Windows.
> FreeBSD is a *real* operating system, let say it has to replace
> the OS in your Mac, but it will not run under the Mac OS.

Moreover, FreeBSD won't run on the Mac.  If you want unix on the
Mac, check out NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux.  In all these cases, too,
you can install them as a separate OS but can't run them under the Mac
OS.

R.


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