Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:40:14 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers Message-ID: <20071118084013.GC83139@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <473FB515.5080907@gmail.com> References: <473F250F.2030903@gmail.com> <20071117.164853.1221560804.imp@bsdimp.com> <473F7EE7.4080405@gmail.com> <20071118000233.GA5820@kobe.laptop> <473FB515.5080907@gmail.com>
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On 2007-11-17 22:44, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> 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? > > With 4GB and a E6850 (P35/IHC9(R)) almost all the pci devices I had > where reconized *EXCEPT* any nvdidia card under i386 this was > instantly "fixed" as soon I switched to amd64. Sorry, but I can barely parse the sentence above. Do you mean that you _did_ installl i386, but it had issues? Or that you had an _amd64_ installation, but was forced to move back to i386?
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