From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 13:24:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C0B37B41A for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:24:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from vhds001 ([24.78.12.247]) by femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20011121212358.OLCQ22911.femail36.sdc1.sfba.home.com@vhds001>; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:23:58 -0800 Message-ID: <02c101c172d3$22bcd0b0$090ea8c0@vhds001> Reply-To: "Justin P. Michel" From: "Justin P. Michel" To: "AJ Adams" , References: Subject: Re: alpha vs i386 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:26:07 -0500 Organization: Continuum MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG AJ, You have got the right one. i386 is for CPU's based on the 32-bit architecture (i386 is back from the Intel 80386 CPU days which is the first 32 bit processor that Linux/BSD worked on) from the Intel/AMD/Cyrix 80386 up to the new Intel P4 and AMD XP. Alpha is a separate CPU line, that I honestly don't know too much about. :) As for a modem, anything that is not a win-modem class modem should work nicely. I also have an AMD based system running FBSD 4.4 - RELEASE, and it's working great. Regards, Justin P. Michel J Continuum ----- Original Message ----- From: "AJ Adams" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 4:07 PM Subject: alpha vs i386 > I am a newbie with any other operating systems other than Windows. I am > tired of using windows. I read an article in PC Magazine, the November > issue and saw that FreeBSD is an excellent choice. My question is, what > is the difference between alpha and i386? I read the documentations on > how to install it...great docs. As of right now, I have download 4.4 iso > images (all 5 images) from the i386 folder on ftp2. I hope that is > correct when factoring in the components of my computer. > Could you please let me know if I am downloading the correct installation? > Do I need alpha or i386? My specs are listed below. > > > AMD 650, 751 Chipset mobo. > 128 ECC Corsair mem > maxtor 20 GB. > modem = can you recommend one? i don't have one yet. > ethernet card = smc1211 tx and smc 8432T > viper v770 AGP 2X/4X > SB Live Value > creative 52x ide > Aopen 20x10x40 CDRW, ide. > my OS's are 2000 Professional and XP Professional. > > I could really use some help...please. > > Thanks, > > AJ Adams > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message