Re: Sysinstall looks good on Intel Mac

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 22:38 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
> 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...

Yes.  I had to do this for the latest firmware update since installing
FreeBSD somehow made it impossible to do so otherwise.  I had to build a
10.4.6 version of the OS on the firewire drive, but after that, I was
able to do the upgrade just fine.

Joe

> 
> 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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