From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 7 4: 6:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BE1B37BA57 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 60049 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2000 11:05:57 -0000 Received: from theory2.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.21) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 7 Jun 2000 11:05:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 641 invoked by uid 211); 7 Jun 2000 11:05:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 16:35:55 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Raymundo M. Vega" Cc: Lord Lerkista , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question About Installing FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607163555.B607@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <20000607092604.23312.qmail@hotmail.com> <393E177E.EC304959@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <393E177E.EC304959@home.com>; from RaymundoVega@home.com on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 02:35:58AM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.5-15 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message