Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:07:17 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> To: Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram Message-ID: <20060321150717.16c1b18a.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.0.16.2.20060321141823.03985008@msdi.ca> References: <7.0.0.16.2.20060321141823.03985008@msdi.ca>
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:15 -0500 Ian Lord <mailing-lists@msdi.ca> wrote: > I am currently running freebsd 6 (amd64) on dells servers that have > dual xeon processors in them. There is also 4 gigs of ram in them. > > I need to reinstall cause I want to go to i386 version (too much > problems finding binairies compatible with amd64 with commercial vendors) > > Could someone tell me: > > 1- What is the cpu I need to specify in my config ? > > 2- Do I need to run PAE to have access to all my 4 gigs of ram ? Yes. Without PAE, the kernel will only see 3.5G. I don't know the answers to your other questions, however. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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