Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:42:58 +0100 From: RW <mlt01@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64) Message-ID: <20070929214258.046cbd3b@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <bef9a7920709290903q3ab2a7e3x22de338ecd6af49e@mail.gmail.com> References: <bef9a7920709262135l1daa6a45k3a2fc492f8711d42@mail.gmail.com> <44r6khh4xh.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> <bef9a7920709290903q3ab2a7e3x22de338ecd6af49e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:03:05 +0000 "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I have more then 4gb and was wondering why it didn't all show up.... > is there anyway to do a in place upgrade (I have a lot of user > data)... also someone should think about changing the naming on the > iso/cpu types since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) > and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. What's confusing? i386 is for 386 compatible processors - a 32-bit OS for 32-bit processors, which is therefore limited to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) without the PAE workaround. amd64 is for AMD 64 compatible processors operated in 64-bit mode.
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