Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:46:01 +0100 From: Christopher Key <cjk32@cam.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Installation Suggestion Message-ID: <46B71809.4040704@cam.ac.uk>
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Hello, I'm about to install FreeBSD for the first time on a new machine and have a few questions: 1) The motherboard is an Intel DQ964GF, which uses the ICH8 chipset. Is it better to use this in IDE or AHCI mode? (The system will be booting from a S-ATA disk) 2) Are there any good documents discussing the relative merits of using i386 / amd64? 3) Does anyone have any good suggestions on how to perform the installation. The machine has no floppy or CD-ROM drive, and it's not really convenient to temporarily add them as I may well end up going through the install procedure several times. The options seem to be either a USB flash drive (any thoughts on how to get a UFS file system and FreeBSD MBR on there using only WinXP), or via the network. Any advice much appreciated, Chris
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