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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:06:01 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Subject:   Re: mac mini (intel)?
Message-ID:  <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com>
References:  <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com>

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On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 02:01 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> > A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe)=20
> > run on a MacBook laptop.
> >=20
> > Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)?  I might be=20
> > interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted=20
> > mail stores.  I like their small size and ability to stick several of=20
> > them in my racks without really taking much room.  (We are short of rac=
k=20
> > space at the moment for many new servers).
>=20
> Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet?
> (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.)

Yes, with Bootcamp.  However, they cannot boot FreeBSD automatically (or
at least I haven't found a way to do it).  You must hold the Option key
down at boot-time to select the alternate OS.

Joe

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