About FreeBSD installation

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Quoting Vladimir Tsvetkov <npacemo at gmail.com>:

> It depends on what you really want. If you don't want 64-bit version OS, I
> don't think you'll have problems at all. Recently, my PC got fucked up, I've
> changed the mother board, switched from 32 bit AMD Athlon to a 64 bit AMD
> Turion, and successfully booted from the previously installed FreeBSD
> 4.9Release on the hard drive.
> If you want the 64 bit version of the OS, further investigation from you are
> needed.
> Check this out:
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html

About two weeks ago, I lost two amd-32 servers and replaced them with  
amd-64 and am running off the old disks beautifully, and much, much  
faster.  I have over 500 ports on both.  One was and is running up to  
date Stable and the other up to date Current.  I was planning on going  
to AMD64 but with the current results, I really doubt that I will make  
the change until well after the current 7.0 release.

I made this decision based on recommendations made on this list a few  
days ago.  You might want to search the mailing lists if you need more  
assurance and if no just enjoy the AMD64.  I'm happy with their  
performance and price.

enjoy,

ed
>
> Best Regards,
> Vladimir
>
> On 04/07/07, Yordan Yordanov <htll at abv.bg> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to install the last stable release of FreeBSD Unix on my desktop
>> machine with AMD64 processor. Are there any differences in the FreeBSD ports
>> for these two platform: FreeBSD/i386 and amd64? In the FreeBSD handbook I
>> saw a workaround which should be applied to set up FreeBSD for  some
>> chipsets. If I have such a problem can I try to install i386 version
>> on my machine. There is no reason not to work, but I want to be sure that
>> this is possible.
>>
>> Greetings from Bulgaria
>>
>> Yordan
>>
>>
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