new hard drive

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 06:08:59 -0500
<starikarp at yandex.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 09:11:17 +0800
> Erich Dollansky <freebsd.ed.lists at sumeritec.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 05:38:54 -0500
> > <starikarp at yandex.com> wrote:
> >   
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

just put the disk into an USB case, connect it to the iMAC. Create the
same partition schema using gpart. I install then the operating system
from sources on the USB drive, edit the configuration file and off it
goes.

I do not know the differences your machines have compared to normal PCs.

Erich
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