Problem Installing FreeBSD on mac

newben · Dec 3, 2011

Hello everybody,

First I apologize for my English because I am French.

I have some weird problem. I've never used FreeBSD and I am a basic Mac user. But I wanted install FreeBSD on my mac. So, I downloaded Parallel Desktop software and a FreeBSD ISO image. I used the Parallell interface to install the FreeBSD device. And then I had a shell, and some instructions to wait before beginning and then there were plenty of messages,

Code:

pid ... (sh)", uid 0 was killed, out of swap space

Then a line

Code:

init : bin/sh on etc/rc ended abnormally, going to single user mode

and

Code:

enter fullpath name of Shell or Return for /bin/sh

and the when I press enter, I am directed to the same first interface with shell booting again. Would be great if you could you help me?

Best,
Newben

dave · Dec 4, 2011

Try VirtualBox

Personally, I would use VirtualBox.

Step-by-step instructions and info for both Parallels and VirtualBox here: FreeBSD As A Guest OS.

wblock@ · Dec 4, 2011

newben said:
I have some weird problem. I've never used FreeBSD and I am a basic Mac user. But I wanted install FreeBSD on my mac. So, I downloaded Parallel Desktop software and a FreeBSD ISO image. I used the Parallell interface to install the FreeBSD device. And then I had a shell, and some instructions to wait before beginning and then there were plenty of messages,

Code:

pid ... (sh)", uid 0 was killed, out of swap space

Maybe too little RAM and disk space were allocated to FreeBSD?

I second dave's suggestion of VirtualBox.

newben · Dec 5, 2011

associating disk memory to freebsd

Thanks a lot for your response. But, installing virtual box was not really successful. By the way, I tried to make a partition on my mac with bootcamp, but it wasn't possible because I was asked to put a CD. Then, I used the disk utilities to make a partition on my mac, but I wasn't able to allocate it on the mac.

Would you have a suggestion please?

Best,
Newben?

wblock@ · Dec 5, 2011

Have you seen the Handbook section on Virtualization?

It should not be necessary to create a new partition, most VM software can use files on the host drive as virtual drives.

Maisondouf · Dec 6, 2011

I discover after a lot of tries than the network config of the virtual ~~freebsd~~ FreeBSD machine must be set to bridge mode between host and guest. Otherwise ftp site is never found during installation.

wblock@ · Dec 6, 2011

It should work with NAT if "FTP Passive" is chosen.

newben · Dec 9, 2011

Hi,

I thank you a lot for all this advice. In fact, I was able to install ~~freebsd~~ FreeBSD with parallel desktop. I had forgotten to create a root folder /, after having created /usr!

Best,
Newben