Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:31:48 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can 32bit OS run on 64bit hardware? Message-ID: <20170628193148.88fd18b4.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20170628171646.GA60383@krenn.local> References: <595393A0.6080903@gmail.com> <20170628145946.300daa82.freebsd@edvax.de> <20170628171646.GA60383@krenn.local>
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On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 19:16:46 +0200, Frank Steinborn wrote: > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 07:31:44 -0400, Ernie Luzar wrote: > > > I have a running 32bit system and want to move that hard drive to a > > > 64bit machine. Will the 32bit system work ok on the 64bit hardware? > > > > Definitely. I'm doing this on my home PC: > > FreeBSD 32 bit OS on a Intel Core 2 64 bit CPU. > > Just out of curiosity, may I ask why you do this? Several reasons: 1. Not enough RAM (only 2 GB) to justify addressing in 64 bit, and no intention to upgrade the RAM (it's hardly used 50%). 2. Some software that works best with 32 bit, especially wine (for games) and nvidia-driver for GPU. 3. Pure lazyness due to "never touch a running system" principle. For sure, I wouldn't do this on a new system, but this is a quite old system (actually ca. 10 years old) and still fully functional for my home use (gaming, video editing, web browsing, office suite, LaTeX, programming, etc.). Also I wouldn't advise running 32 bit OS until you have a very good reason to do so. As you can see, I have provided 3 good reasons... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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