Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:23:52 -0500 From: "RIchard N. Fogle" <rich@neosaint.org> To: Claus Guttesen <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd i386 on amd64 hardware? Message-ID: <1096061032.636.4.camel@rfogle.rackspace.com> In-Reply-To: <20040924211916.58977.qmail@web14125.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040924211916.58977.qmail@web14125.mail.yahoo.com>
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The i386 distribution works great on my dual Opteron.. I can't use the AMD64 version until I figure out how to get the Atheros wireless driver working with the new 64-bit HAL :) The speed is amazing. R On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:19, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > is it possible to run 32-bit FreeBSD (4.x) on amd64 > > hardware? > > Last year I purchased a dual opteron @ 1.6 GHz, and > couldn't compile php4 with mcrypt properly using the > amd64-port and had also problems with acpi, so I > installed the i386-port (FreeBSD 5.x) instead. 4.10 > should the same way as well. Works like a charm, the > cpu performs better than their intel-counterparts. > > Good luck > > Claus > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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