new hard drive

[starikarp at yandex.com]

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 09:11:17 +0800
Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists at sumeritec.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 05:38:54 -0500
> <starikarp at yandex.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:38:46 +0800
> > Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists at 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.   
> 
> 
> here are some people running FreeBSD on the Macs. You just need a
> loader that is able to handle what ever is there as a BIOS
> replacement.
> 
> All will be plain FreeBSD after the loader took over.
> 
> Erich

Yes, I have FreeBSD also on iMac and I am using rEFIt boot manager but
I didn't figured out how can I do this.