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Dual Boot NetBSD And MacOS On An iMac

Posted by timothy on from the making-life-less-dangerous dept.

camateg writes: "I've yet to find news of someone who has done this with a single hard disk, but I'm sure someone has. However, I seem to be the first to make a web page about it having done it, correct me if I'm wrong. This page is just a small tuturial I came up with to describe how I *finally* got things working. No netboot, no ofwboot.xcf on CD, etc. Yeah, I should probably include yaboot to make it complete..."

3 of 24 comments (clear)

  1. Re:*BSD is dying by toddpw · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I moderate this down on the grounds that it's posted by a cron job?

  2. iMac and BSD. by saintlupus · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Incidentally, this same thing works for OpenBSD. I was playing around with that on my own iMac for a little while.

    --saint

  3. Re:On an iMac? by trash+eighty · · Score: 4, Informative

    because it can be done and its fun to try.

    you're on slashdot, you shouldn't need any more reason. in any point OSX is not exactly ultra fast on a G3 box