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Installing Freebsd on MAc
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M. P.
2018-05-25 22:59:09 UTC
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Hello I am trying to install FreeBSD on a MAC I burn - FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso <https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso> to a blank DVD with Mac diskutility but when I try to boot to disk I get nothing. Just standard startup. Any Ideas?
Felix Friedlander
2018-05-26 01:40:07 UTC
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Post by M. P.
Hello I am trying to install FreeBSD on a MAC I burn - FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso <https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso> to a blank DVD with Mac diskutility but when I try to boot to disk I get nothing. Just standard startup. Any Ideas?
Unless you have quite an old intel Mac, you probably want the amd64 installer, not the i386 one. Also, that was a CD image you downloaded, not a DVD image. Try downloading:

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

and see how that goes.

- Felix
StariKarp
2018-05-26 17:46:25 UTC
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Post by M. P.
Hello I am trying to install FreeBSD on a MAC I burn - FreeBSD-11.1-
RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso <https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/i38
6/i386/ISO-IMAGES/11.1/FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso> to a
blank DVD with Mac diskutility but when I try to boot to disk I get
nothing. Just standard startup. Any Ideas?
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I have installed FreeBSD on iMac 11,1 (amd64). I have a dual boot (OS X
and FreeBSD) and I use rEFIt.

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