Re: Sysinstall looks good on Intel Mac

From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad_at_shire.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:38:16 -0600
On Jul 14, 2006, at 9:00 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 19:15 -0600, James Earl wrote:
>> Thanks Maxim!  Is the built-in ethernet supported in current?  Might
>> have to find me a usb ethernet adapter.
>
> It is supported using the SysKonnect Yukon II drivers found at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/mykbsd60x86-8.12.1.3-src.tgz .
>
>>
>> Oh, btw... I did go ahead and install FreeBSD, and not just admire
>> sysinstall.  Somehow in my excitement I managed to wipe out my Mac OS
>> X partition  :)
>
> You'll probably want to rebuild that since firmware updates will  
> require
> it.

I wonder if you'll be able to boot off a firewire disk to do updates...

Chad

>
> Joe
>
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 7/14/06, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> Actually with recent current you only need to disable apic.  
>>> Everything
>>> else should Just Work[tm].
>>>
>>> Welcome to the FreeBSD on Mactel hardware clib! :-)
>>>
>>> -Maxim
>>>
>>> James Earl wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just thought I'd let everyone know that I'm looking at the
>>>> sysinstall screen on my Intel Mac Mini (Core Duo).  After using  
>>>> Mac OS
>>>> X for the past couple months, sysinstall has never looked so  
>>>> good!  :)
>>>>
>>>> Based on this thread:
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-April/ 
>>>> 062371.html,
>>>> at the boot prompt I disabled psm, atkbd, and atkbdc, and apic.
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