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Date:      Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Christopher Joyner <chris27wjoyner@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?
Message-ID:  <200808191405.m7JE56iq010742@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <994770.49178.qm@web56706.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Christopher Joyner wrote:
 > Is there some way of doing that?  Running i386 software on amd64 machine?

Yes.  FreeBSD/amd64 contains a compatibility facility
for i386 binaries.  It should just work out of the box,
unless disabled explicitly.

Best regards
   Oliver

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