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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:49:41 -0500
From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>
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Subject: Re: 64-bit?
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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Ryan Coleman 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 amd64-compatible CPUs, and stability is on par 
> with the 32-bit version.  Besides which, amd64 CPUs are full backwards 
> compatible when run in 32-bit mode, so this is not the source of your 
> problems.
>
> Kris
But will it upgrade or do I have to strike the current install and go again?