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On 2007-11-17 18:53, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote:
> > You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes.
>
> All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this
> has blown up.... also since I use a nvidia card it is almost pointless
> unless I can run the nvidia kernel module.

That's odd.

The laptop I'm typing this is amd64-capable, but installing from the
FreeBSD/i386 release CD-ROMs worked like a charm.  Which methods have
you tried?

BTW, the i386 kernel module of nvidia should run fine on FreeBSD/i386.