will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

2013-07-05 Thread robert reed
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Re: will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

2013-07-05 Thread Jason Birch
Maybe! Do you mean as a virtual machine, or *instead of* OS X? If you mean as a virtual machine, almost certainly. If you mean instead of OS X, please provide some details about the computer hardware itself. Even When did you buy it? iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook? etc will help us answer your question.

Re: will freebsd run on a mac osx 10.8.4

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I assume you are running Mac OS X 10.8.4 on Intel CPU. I assume it must be 64-bits, so you would want amd64 version of FreeBSD, though you could also run i386 version. I don't know if you could install FreeBSD on same hard disk with Mac OS X, but you ought to be able to install FreeBSD on a