Installing Freebsd on MAc

[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?
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[Felix Friedlander]

> On 26 May 2018, at 08:59, M. P. <winterm...@icloud.com> wrote:
>
> 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]

On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 15:59 -0700, M. P. wrote:
> 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.