Sorry for the inconvenience

[Olivier Gautherot]

Hi Dmitry!

I recently installed successfully FreeBSD 8.0 on an Atom-based motherboard -
works great!!! I would also recommend the i386 distribution.

Let us know how it goes.

Cheers
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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn at freenet.de>wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:47:11 +0400
> bdmalex at mail.ru wrote:
>
> > Hello, all!
> > Sorry for the inconvenience - I am newbie...
> > I buy NVidia ION nettop with Intel Atom 330 processor without OS...
> > ...
> > Can I install FreeBSD on such nettop ? What is platform I must to use:
> >
> > x86 ? But as I know Atom 64bit processor ...
> > ia_64 ? But ias I understand, its only for Intel Itanuim processor...
> >
>
> I personally would start with the i386 distribution just ot see whether
> FreeBSD supports enough of the hardware to come up.  You can download
> the USB-stick image (8.0-RC1-i386-memstick.img) for it, which will make
> it easy to do a quick check.
>
> To take advantage of the 64-bit capabilities you have to install the
> amd64 distribution, so use 8.0-RC1-amd64-memstick.img.
>
> ---
> Gary Jennejohn
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