Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 14:33:22 -0600 From: "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@hotpost.co.uk> To: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Athlon Message-ID: <050001c3ff03$4a4e0e00$220110ac@ARLETTE> References: <04b301c3feef$88d057a0$220110ac@ARLETTE> <20040229183627.GA52230@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <200402291057.36737.kstewart@owt.com>
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> On Sunday 29 February 2004 10:36 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:12:02PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > Just a couple of easy questions for you. Is a machine with an > > > Athlon processor 1.4 MHz an i386 machine? And if so, what kind of > > > processor should I select in my kernel? i586, or i686? > > > > One of these? > > > > CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1400.06-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 > > > > Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC > >A,CMOV,PA T,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE> > > AMD Features=0xc0480000<MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> > > > > As /var/run/dmesg.boot says, it's a 686 class processor. > > > > I was going to send one of these but then I got to thinking about what > you needed to know before you download an iso or whatever. The web site > really doesn't tell you that an Athlon is a 686 and you need to know > that before you do the install and can look at the dmesg output. Many thanks. Yes, the web site only speaks about Pentium. Couldn't find the info there. But now I know where I'm standing. Teilhard ________________________________ 30mb Web based, POP3 & IMAP4 e-mail. Sign up now: http://www.ghostmailbox.com
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