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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:21:05 -0800
From:      Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com>
To:        Ed Jobs <oloringr@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bootcamp?
Message-ID:  <20091120012104.GC5725@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <200911200318.36398.oloringr@gmail.com>
References:  <6C279C53-E7C8-4A6C-BDF7-CEE61C8B0FA6@gmail.com> <BFDFFE175893404B8BC865EE888E83B80122D2@pd-exbe.pdconsec.local> <200911200318.36398.oloringr@gmail.com>

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 03:18:36AM +0200, Ed Jobs thus spake:
>On Friday 20 November 2009 02:17, David Rawling wrote:
>> Hi Juan and welcome to the FreeBSD community. You might try VirtualBox,
>> which is similar to VMWare Workstation but free and part of the ports
>> tree.
>>
>> There's probably a package for it - try:
>>
>> pkg_add -r virtualbox
>>
>> However, you may struggle to install OS/X - Apple have some reasonable
>> technical restrictions in place, and a licensing restriction also that
>> prevents use on non Apple hardware. As a result you probably are not
>> licensed to, and may not physically be able to, use OS/X on your new PC.
>
>well, since Juan mentioned bootcamp, i guess he wants to install freebsd on a
>mac. correct me if i am wrong
>
>
>--
>Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to
>understand.

Beyond this, there is a virtualbox installation dmg for MacOSX. It won't
work on a "growing file system," for FreeBSD, but will on a hard limit 
file system size for the installation of the virtual machine.



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