From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 06:54:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7300B16A4DA for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:54:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC1343D45 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:54:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G0v5z-000HEl-Oz; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:54:47 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> <1152770761.53082.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v750) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 00:54:47 -0600 To: Joe Marcus Clarke X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.750) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:54:48 -0000 On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:06 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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) >>> run on a MacBook laptop. >>> >>> Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be >>> interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs >>> mounted >>> mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick >>> several of >>> them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short >>> of rack >>> space at the moment for many new servers). >> >> 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. Have you tried BAMBIOS ( ?) Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net