Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 05:38:54 -0500 From: <starikarp@yandex.com> To: Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: new hard drive Message-ID: <20181201053854.1ef28af1@yandex.com> In-Reply-To: <20181201113846.2f21e068.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> References: <20181130054835.4caa4d32@yandex.com> <20181201113846.2f21e068.freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com>
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:38:46 +0800 Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists@sumeritec.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > Hi! > > > > I asked long ago about hard drives and I decided and order the new > > WD black 1TB for my iMac 11,1 where I have installed FreeBSD from > > version 6?. > > I decided to change HD by myself but the problem is (which I didn't > > solved yet) how to put operating system on. First I hope that I can > > just put FreeBSD CD in and install like on PC but I heard that > > doesn't work. > > Does anyone know a trick how should I solved the problem, please. > > Now I have OS X (Mountain Lion) on and I use rEFIt as boot > > manager. > > I place new disk either in a normal PC or an case with USB connection, > format it there, give it labels, mount the partitions via the labels > and copy every thing onto the new disk I require there. > > Of course, I adjust the /etc/fstab so that it mounts the disk later > via the labels. > > Erich Thank you very much for the answer. I did replace HD in PC too but in the Apple computers is much different and as I heard iMac cannot allow install just FreeBSD or whatever OS different as OS X on the disk.
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