Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 19:30:05 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Just following up re: my initial install of FreeBSD on my new AMD64 box Message-ID: <XFMail.20040610193005.conrads@cox.net>
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Well, I'm happy to report that I now have a *very* nicely working install of FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT (amd64) on my new AMD64 box. It took some doing at first, but it was certainly well worth the time and trouble. :-) I had some problems burning the 5.2.1-RELEASE ISOs for the amd64. Not the fault of the image files, I'm sure, but nonetheless, I couldn't get a disc to burn successfully. The burncd operation would run successfully until the fixate phase, at which point I would get an i/o error and end up with yet another coaster. It *may* be the discs I'm using, or I may need to tweak the speed parm; I have to do more experimentation in this area, for sure, being on a totally new system and a totally new version of FreeBSD. So it would be premature, of course, to call this a bug report per se. What I ended up doing was using the i386 CD set I had from my FreeBSD subscription (5.2.1-RELEASE), and doing an ftp install, pointing the installer to the amd64 subdir on one of the ftp sites. This was sufficient to get a base install I could boot into. After that, I grabbed the current sources and ports via CVS (is it possible to use the i386 cvsup package, by the way? I was a little surprised to see an amd64 version was not available), rebuilt the world and kernel, and voila! A fully functioning amd64 install of 5.2-CURRENT. I later customized the kernel config and did another build/install. Only problem I'm having at this point is that booting with ACPI enabled hangs just after the two ATAPI devices are probed. Not sure why, as I can't get any further logging, even with a verbose boot. Not a big problem for me at this point, but one that I would like to see eventually resolved, of course. Sorry if this post is a little too "personal", but I'm just really very happy and excited right now, with the new machine itself and its awesome speed and power, at having succeeded with the install of FreeBSD for the AMD 64, and at the prospect of getting involved in the amd64 side of FreeBSD's continuing development. I'm open to any suggestions as to any areas I may want to explore in the hope of being able to contribute something useful as an AMD64 newbie (but not a FreeBSD newbie; been running FreeBSD since June '96). OK, I'll shut up now. :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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