Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
On 2010-3-7 4:21 AM, Devin Ceartas wrote: I run openBSD 4.6 on intel mac minis as production web and email servers. Works great. Nothing special about the install unless you want to keep a mac partion. Put in the i386 disk, reboot. May have hold down c, I forget. The AMD64 CD would give the advantages (and disadvantages) of that architecture. I find the rEFIt bootloader very convenient. I think there are two partion options and I fond I works best without the HFS. The HFSplus packages is available for powerpc, not AMD64 or i386. /Lars
Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
On 2010-3-7 12:36 AM, John Hope wrote: Does any clear step by step documentation exist for installing OpenBSD on a Mac Mini? ... One way, not necessarily the best way, if you want dualboot, is * boot the OS X installation disk. * Partition the disk, leaving a FAT32 partition for OpenBSD. Using FAT32 is way to make a physical partition. (This may not be necessary.) * Install OS X. * Install rEFIt http://refit.sourceforge.net/ Make sure to run /efi/refit/enable-always.sh * boot the OpenBSD installation cd, change the FAT32 partition to OpenBSD and use all of it. * reboot, and use the rEFIt menu to choose the Start Partitioning Tool option to sync the MBR. * choose the OpenBSD icon and wait a bit. I don't know what it's doing, but it won't go anywhere. * forcibly reboot. Now you can choose OS X or OpenBSD upon startup. OS X will be the default, unless you change rEFIt's settings. YMMV It's possible to set triple boot with linux also, but watch out that grub doesn't mess with the bootloader when you do your next update. If that happens then you can set grub to include something like this: ## OpenBSD title OpenBSD root (hd1,1) # or where ever the root was makeactive chainloader +1 /Lars
Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
Thank you for both replies. It was much, much easier than I thought. Just cleared the disk via Disk Utility from my Mac OS X disk. Popped in my 4.6 CD and done a usual install. Worked perfectly! startx worked perfectly first time too! Thank you OpenBSD team/users! P.S: In my 4.6 CD booklet it says: cd /cdrom/4.6 /packages/arch I think you've mistakenly added a space after the 4.6. Or am I missing something? John
Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:50:51 + John Hope hopejoh...@googlemail.com wrote: P.S: In my 4.6 CD booklet it says: cd /cdrom/4.6 /packages/arch I think you've mistakenly added a space after the 4.6. Or am I missing something? I just checked the official 4.6 release CD set and booklet. Yes, on page four of the booklet, that is either a typo or printing mistake (e.g. in the type setting). Please realize the space available on the CD sets is highly limited, so the number of packages available on them is fairly small. There is a much larger selection of packages available on the ftp mirrors. http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html jon
OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
Hello, First - please excuse my lack of knowledge if it is completely obvious. I have the old Intel Mac Mini currently running Mac OS X Leopard with Bootcamp. The whole disk is currently dedicated to Leopard and no other operating systems exist. I would like to use my Mac Mini as a small home server for various activities and would like it to run OpenBSD 4.6. However, I have google'd and searched the archives and not found much information for me to be confident enough to install OpenBSD 4.6. Obviously it's clear that OpenBSD does run fine on the Intel Mac Mini but I'm just looking for some assistance on the procedure. I have purchased a OpenBSD 4.6 CD set and have successfully installed it on my i386 laptop and it's running smoothly. So my questions... Does any clear step by step documentation exist for installing OpenBSD on a Mac Mini? Is it a similar process as installing Windows (via Bootcamp) or is there another way to just dedicated the whole machine to OpenBSD? Any advice or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. John
Re: OpenBSD 4.6 Intel Mac Mini
I run openBSD 4.6 on intel mac minis as production web and email servers. Works great. Nothing special about the install unless you want to keep a mac partion. Put in the i386 disk, reboot. May have hold down c, I forget. I think there are two partion options and I fond I works best without the HFS. Devin Ceartas Owner, NacreData L.L.C. On Mar 6, 2010, at 5:36 PM, John Hope hopejoh...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello, First - please excuse my lack of knowledge if it is completely obvious. I have the old Intel Mac Mini currently running Mac OS X Leopard with Bootcamp. The whole disk is currently dedicated to Leopard and no other operating systems exist. I would like to use my Mac Mini as a small home server for various activities and would like it to run OpenBSD 4.6. However, I have google'd and searched the archives and not found much information for me to be confident enough to install OpenBSD 4.6. Obviously it's clear that OpenBSD does run fine on the Intel Mac Mini but I'm just looking for some assistance on the procedure. I have purchased a OpenBSD 4.6 CD set and have successfully installed it on my i386 laptop and it's running smoothly. So my questions... Does any clear step by step documentation exist for installing OpenBSD on a Mac Mini? Is it a similar process as installing Windows (via Bootcamp) or is there another way to just dedicated the whole machine to OpenBSD? Any advice or links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. John
