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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:27:47 -0400
From: Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>
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Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> wrote:

> I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well lately 
> but there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and you're 
> willing to share (as am I).
>
> This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit 
> cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have 
> anything to do with the crashes? Is there a stable 64-bit version of fBSD I 
> should install? Will it upgrade the 32-bit or should I go from scratch?

6.3 supports 64-bit.  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html

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Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>