From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 20:07:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726B716AAA6 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0350713C491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-10-135.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.10.135]:59852 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HJxkp-0006IS-3J for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:07:55 +0100 Received: (qmail 48329 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2007 21:07:52 +0100 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 21 Feb 2007 21:07:52 +0100 Received: (qmail 59085 invoked by uid 1001); 21 Feb 2007 21:07:52 +0100 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:07:52 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: Aard Nerd Message-ID: <20070221200751.GA59046@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Aard Nerd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <001501c755ef$cda7a810$9bd3dcc9@etecsad75a3279> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c755ef$cda7a810$9bd3dcc9@etecsad75a3279> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HJxkp-0006IS-3J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HJxkp-0006IS-3J 1eec6dfc3076ef68a6e86348c46732c7 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bits platform question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:07:56 -0000 On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Aard Nerd wrote: > Hi list, as far as I know Intel 64 architecture (formerly known as Intel > Extended Memory 64 Technology, or Intel EM64T) enables 64-bit computing on > desktop when combined with supporting software. If I am right, 64-bit > computing (on Intel architecture) requires a computer system with a > processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers and applications > enabled for Intel EM64T architecture. So I bought an ASUS P4P800-VM with a > 3.0GHz processor that supports Intel EM64T and 1Gb of Infineon PC3200 RAM > memory. The system is ok...so why I can't install BSD 64 bits with my > system ??? > > Any clues, thanks in advance. Intel has two 64-bit architectures - you probably downloaded the disk for the wrong one. On one hand they have the IA64 architecture which they originally intended to be the successor to the IA32 (aka x86 or i386) architecture. IA64 never became very popular however. AMD created their own 64 bit architecture - AMD64 (aka x86-64) which had the big advantage of being backwards compatible with the x86 architecture. Eventually Intel too started to implement chips around the AMD64 architecture - except they called it EM64T. FreeBSD supports both the ia64 and amd64 architectures. Unless you have a computer with an Itanium or Itanium 2 CPU (which you do not have) you want to install the amd64 version of FreeBSD and not ia64. (Or the i386 version since that will also work fine, albeit only in 32-bit mode.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se