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<h3>Contents</h3> |
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<li><a href="#s1a"><strong>Installation</strong></a></li> |
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<li><a href="#s1b">Introduction</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#s1c">Preparing For Installtion</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#s1d">Installing MidnightBSD</a></li> |
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<li><a href="#s1e">Example Hardware Configurations</a></li> |
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<li><a href="kernel/modules.html"><strong>Kernel Documentation</strong></a></li> |
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<li>Packages in MidnightBSD |
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<h3 id="s1a">Installation</h3> |
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<h4 id="s1b">Introduction</h4> |
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<p>While MidnightBSD plans to target moderate and novice users, currently installation |
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is too difficult for beginners to *NIX like operating systems. Experience with BSD, |
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Linux, or another *NIX like system is very helpful. FreeBSD users familiar with |
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sysinstall should have no problem with this procedure. You may also consult the |
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<a href="/wiki/">MidnightBSD wiki</a> or |
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/handbook">FreeBSD Handbook</a> for additional information |
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not found on this page.</p> |
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<h4 id="s1c">Preparing For Installation</h4> |
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<p>You may download MidnightBSD from our FTP server or any mirrors, provided that you have a |
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broadband internet connection. You will need disk 1 of a release or snapshot in order to install MidnightBSD.</p> |
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<p>You will need free space on your hard drive. While the system runs very well on a few gigabytes of disk space, we recommend at least |
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15GB of space for use with mports on a desktop. An Intel Pentium class computer or equivalent is required. We have removed 486 support |
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from the default install, although it can be compiled in. At least 48MB of RAM is required for installation.</p> |
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<p>Depending on your needs, various graphics cards are supported at different levels. Many network cards are |
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supported as well as a few wireless network cards. We will document them at a later time. |
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Many onboard audio controllers are supported as well as other cards like the |
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Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 families.</p> |
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<p>MidnightBSD can co-exist with Microsoft Windows or Linux on the same disk. It is |
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recommended that you use GRUB from Linux if you wish to dual boot MidnightBSD with Linux. |
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For Windows, the included boot manager is sufficient. (Windows XP was tested). Third |
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party boot managers such as System Commander 8.20 are supported as well. I currently dual boot |
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Windows XP SP2 and MidnightBSD with System Commander on my primary desktop. With Windows Vista, |
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you should use the boot manager included with Vista (and the boot1 file from CD) |
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or a third party boot manager such as gag. The included one with not work with Vista (overwrites it)</p> |
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<p>You may also install MidnightBSD using a virtualization product such as qemu, Microsoft Virtual PC, or VMware. Parallels has not been tested to my knowledge. |
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<p>You will need to burn a copy of the Disk 1 iso from our FTP server using your |
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favorite CD burning software. If you need to download burning software, |
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<a href="http://www.maconnect.ch/index.php?page=liquidcd&lang=en">LiquidCD</a> for Mac OS X, and |
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<a href="http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/">InfraRecorder</a> for Windows XP are both free and easy to use. |
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Also, on OS X, you can burn with Disk Utility. For FreeBSD or MidnightBSD, you can |
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use burncd (part of os). |
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<h4 id="s1d">Installing MidnightBSD</h4> |
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<p>Insert the MidnightBSD CD into your CD-ROM drive and start up your PC. On some |
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systems, you may need to enter the BIOS to enable booting from the CD-ROM drive first. |
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On some systems, there is a button you can push to select the CD-ROM drive. For instance, |
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on some Dell systems you can press F12 and then pick the CD-ROM drive. |
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<p>You should see a red and blue screen come up after a few moments preceded by a lot |
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of white and black text. If several minutes pass with no activity and you do not see |
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this screen, please report it. There maybe a bug or an incompatibility with your |
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system we can work to fix. |
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<p>From this point, you may follow the steps in sysinstall to complete installation. |
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On snapshots, X11 (XORG) and packages are not present. Do not attempt to install |
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these items or you will receive errors. We hope to resolve this by 0.2 release. |
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<p>You may follow along with the BSD Magazine article on |
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<a href="http://download.bsdmag.org/en/BSD_as_operating_system_BSD_08_2010.pdf">installing MidnightBSD.</a> in the August 2010 issue. This procedure covers 0.1-RELEASE - 0.3-RELEASE. 0.4 installs are a bit different. There are also some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caZ2KpLehW4">YouTube videos</a> available for older releases.</p> |
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<h4 id="s1e">Example Hardware Configurations</h4> |
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<p>Here is a list of systems that MidnightBSD has been tested on.</p> |
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<caption>Hardware Tested with MidnightBSD 0.2.x</caption> |
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<th>Hardware</th> |
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<th>Status</th> |
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<th>Notes</th> |
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<td>Dell Precision 650</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Dual 2.0Ghz Xeon 3GB ECC RAM IDE. Onboard sound, NIC work. Hyperthreading works</td> |
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<td>Custom Pentium PC</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Custom Built Intel Pentium D 805 dual core 2.66Ghz w/ Intel DP965LT |
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motherboard. Onboard sound untested, network card works, |
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IDE channels work (CD-ROM, etc). Sata controller works. Sound Blaster |
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Audigy Gamer and Nvidia GeForce PCIe 7300 work as expected. System was |
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upgraded to an ATI X1900 GT PCIe, that works with X11 using radeonhd (2D only)</td> |
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<td>Virtual PC</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Virtual PC for Windows works as expected. VPC 7 for Mac OS X |
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works except the CDROM drive is "lost" during install. If you can get it installed using ftp install, |
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it will work fine. Note, you must install 0.1.1 from FTP and then |
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upgrade to 0.2 as sysinstall FTP installation is broken in 0.2.1</td> |
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<td>VMware</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>VMware player works under Windows Vista or XP. VMware Fusion on Mac OS X |
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runs MidnightBSD as expected. Unable to install the vmware-tools for better performance.</td> |
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<td>Sun Netra T1</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>You must use the 0.1 snap and then update to 0.2.1 release. We want |
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to support these again come 0.3. One is a T1 105. Systems have 512MB and 768MB RAM, |
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SCSI disks, one has an IDE cdrom drive. Onboard NICs work.</td> |
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<td>Qemu</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>One of our developers uses qemu with the system. It is included in mports.</td> |
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<td>Parallels</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Parallels 3 or 4 work with MidnightBSD. Releases were tested on Parallels |
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first actually. 0.4's SMP support works. Mac or PC versions.</td> |
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<td>IBM Thinkpad T30</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Sound, video, NIC, DVD all work. System won't sleep and LCD won't |
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turn off. This model has the "pointer stick" and does not have built in |
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wifi. Using ndis with a broadcom wireless NIC works.</td> |
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<td>Asus M4A78 Plus Motherboard + AMD Phenom 9600</td> |
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<td>Does not work</td> |
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<td>USB controller causes panics, freezes. Must disable USB 2 in bios to boot. |
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Onboard NIC not supported and must be disabled. System supported otherwise.</td> |
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<td>iMac 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo with 3GB RAM. (silver/black model) Feb 2008</td> |
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<td>Mostly works</td> |
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<td>Wifi is not supported, although may work with NDIS drivers from bootcamp. |
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Will boot off live cd without problem. Onboard NIC supported in 0.2.1-RELEASE or |
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CURRENT. wifi might work in current with SMP disabled using bwi(4). Sound untested.</td> |
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<td>Mac Pro 2.0Ghz Quad Core (2 x 2)</td> |
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<td>Does not work</td> |
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<td>No video and freezes on bootup. Hates the sata dvd drive.</td> |
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<caption>Hardware Tested with MidnightBSD 0.1.x</caption> |
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<th>Hardware</th> |
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<td>Dell Precision 650</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Dual 2.0Ghz Xeon 1GB ECC RAM SCSI and IDE. Onboard sound, NIC work.</td> |
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<td>Custom Pentium PC</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Custom Built Intel Pentium D 805 dual core 2.66Ghz w/ Intel DP965LT motherboard. |
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Onboard sound untested, network card works, IDE channels do not work (CD-ROM, etc). |
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Sata controller works in recent snapshots. Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer and |
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Nvidia GeForce PCIe 7300 work as expected.</td> |
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<td>Custom PC</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Custom Built Nvidia nForce 2 w/ sata raid (MSI motherboard) 512mb |
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PC2700 DDR, 2 sata disks in gmirror raid 1 configuration, 1 ide disk for |
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boot partition, onboard sound, Geforce 5200 AGP 8x. Onboard NIC (nvidia maclan) |
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did not work correctly, but an OEM Intel em worked as expected. Some disk |
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corruption occured on the sata raid setup, but determined to be a faulty drive.</td> |
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<td>Compaq Cyrix based 366Mhz</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>X11 was not tested, but all devices including an included 3com 905 NIC worked as expected.</td> |
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<td>Dell PowerEdge 5300</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Xeon 550Mhz PIII 512MB RAM, all scsi system. Works as expected including integrated ATI graphics.</td> |
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<td>Virtual PC</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Virtual PC for Windows works as expected. VPC 7 for Mac OS X works |
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except the CDROM drive is "lost" during install. If you can get it installed |
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using ftp install, it will work fine.</td> |
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<td>VMware</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>VMware player works under Windows Vista. VMware Fusion on Mac OS X runs |
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MidnightBSD as expected. Unable to install the vmware-tools for better performance.</td> |
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<td>Sun Ultra 10 3D creator</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>Early releases were tested on a Sun Ultra 10 3D creator. The system died however. Last known working release was 0.1.1.</td> |
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<td>Qemu</td> |
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<td>Works</td> |
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<td>One of our developers uses qemu often with the system. It is included in mports. |
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I believe he's also run MidnightBSD virtualized inside of OpenBSD.</td> |
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<p>In general, if hardware worked in FreeBSD 6.0 Release it will most likely work in MidnightBSD. |
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Some drivers were imported from FreeBSD 6.1 beta, 6.1 Release and 6.2. 0.3-CURRENT |
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includes drivers from FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. We've also added support for several other systems such as network cards found in Intel based iMacs, newer AMD, Intel and NVIDIA SATA chipsets, and fixes for Apple mice.</p> |
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