From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 08:08:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE3616A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:08:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2850343D58 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:08:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849C99776B; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:08:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j2H88iWY000516; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:08:46 GMT (envelope-from matthew@gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by gravitas.thebunker.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j2GK8GJR001542; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:08:16 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:05:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Boris Spirialitious Message-ID: <20050316200556.GA711@gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Boris Spirialitious , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050315165022.34669.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050315165022.34669.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:08:59 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: > When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9.=20 > is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x. Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came in with 5.x, so you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release version. =20 =20 > Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I > use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any > big problems? You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQjiRpJr7OpndfbmCAQLufgQAjNXtY3pvmLIHCiDX6aD8GAlfJ4/ddByB SjOZYAB2R0XkdpgCENPd1zq46oCxF4eOVu8+jAzTcHXEispCVfn/KnLs3SfB/3MP 2g5co7VzhqLuVrbNMuCWfohLwTOkpYlq4XRfXJkoVk56bWgWXh9wZFzEJItZ1Tws C4m2XZ5Lek0= =Z8EH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--