installing 5.2 for AMD 64

[Edmund Craske]

As far as I know, there are no packages yet built for amd64, so
the only install disc is the miniinst one, which is essentially
what you would normally get, but without packages. This one is
the one to use.

Ed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Pete Molina
> Sent: 10 February 2004 18:10
> To: questions at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: installing 5.2 for AMD 64
> 
> 
> good day..   i guess this is a stupid question...   i have 
> been using freebsd  
> 5.1... and im just getting into the AMD64 chips..  i noticed 
> that the AMD64 
> versions of 5.1 or 5.2 only have the boot only ISO..  the 
> disk2 ISO and the 
> mininst ISO..  my question is how do you install the 64 bit 
> version..? 5.1 
> and 5.2 for 386 has a disk1 which i use to boot and start the 
> install..  but 
> for the life of me i can;t figure out how to get the 64bit versions 
> installed..
> 
> thanks for any help anyone can offer
> 
>  
> -- 
> Pete Molina
> PC/LAN Admin
> DME Corporation
> 954 975 2210
> 954 979 3313 (fax)
> petem at dmecorp.com
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