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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2006 11:44:33 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org>,  Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another?
Message-ID:  <44758A91.3040407@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <4474FA6C.40702@webanoide.org>
References:  <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu>	<44748A37.6040801@u.washington.edu> <4474FA6C.40702@webanoide.org>

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Mikhail Goriachev wrote:

>Garrett Cooper wrote:
>  
>
>>Another valid question I suppose is whether or not I can move the
>>machine from a box with a Celeron CPU to one with an AMD CPU (not sure
>>if vendors matter even though ISAs are the same).
>>-Garrett
>>    
>>
>
>
>I guess it would depend on the AMD processor. If it's 32bits then it
>falls into i386 category, same as the Celerons. If it is 64bits then it
>*might* still work in 32bits mode (backward compatibility). In the
>latter case I'd get and AMD64 copy of FreeBSD.
>  
>
i386 works just fine on AMD 64-bit processors.  No need for extra 
precautions.  As long as you didn't compile stuff with processor 
specific options then stuff just works.

--Alex





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