Dual Core Xeon / i386 install w/ more than 4gb of RAM

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 19 23:19:40 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:10:17PM -0500, Kevin K wrote:
> Does anyone have any alternative solutions that would provide a more
> reliable environment other than PAE?

You have two options, and these are the only two I'm aware of:

1) Run amd64 (64-bit).
2) Run i386 with PAE enabled.

I would choose the 64-bit option in your situation.

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