Hi please help

[samuel kirk]

Hi dear jerry
one question is what do u mean intel clone and second  mine is a sempron 
2200 on a msi board i just would liek if u can tell me if it is supported 
sinc eimn having trouble finding it and third i was wondering if u can tell 
me and i dont knwo much about the i386 stuff going on but i think im sure ad 
sempron 2200 will be using i386 please reply soon thank-you


>From: "Jerold McAllister" <jerrymc at msu.edu>
>To: zhane H <zhane1 at gmail.com>
>CC: questions at FreeBSD.org,  dmx3040 at hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: Hi please help
>Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:34:56 -0400
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>zhane H writes:
>
>>Hi dear staff at freebsd
>
>NOTE:  FreeBSD does not have a "staff".   Everyone is a volunteer.
>But people understand what you mean by your greeting.
>
>>How may i check whether the hardware in my pc is supporte by freebsd
>>5.3
>
>If you look on the FreeBSD web site at:  http://www.freebsd.org/
>you will see two releases listed over on the right hand side of the page.
>Under each there is a link called 'Hardware Notes' which will take you
>to a page that lists types of CPU.  Click on one of those and you
>will get a list of hardware categories.  Click on those to get specific
>lists of hardware devices.   If you can find your hardware in those lists,
>you should have no problem.   The difficult thing comes up when you have
>an item such as a sound card which uses the same chip as listed in one
>of the devices but it doesn't list your specific device model.  Most of the
>time, it will also work, but no-one has tested it so they don't know for
>sure.
>
>>  and also i would liek to ask whcih one of freebsd do i install as i
>>dont understand if i ahve to do i386 or some other one im instaling it
>>on a msi board amd sempron 2200 with samsung cd-rw and a 10 gig
>>seagate hdd
>
>If your CPU is an Intel type (including AMD 'clone') then choose i386
>type.   Only if you know your CPU is one of the others such as Alpha
>or sparc64 should you install for those.   All regular PCs are the i386
>type.
>
>NOTE, by the way, that FreeBSD 5.4 is scheduled to come out at the end
>of this month.   It will have many improvements over 5.3.  You may not
>want to wait to start hands on learning, but you may want to just install
>and experiment for now and then completely reinstall when 5.4 is released.
>
>Good luck,
>
>////jerry
>
>>
>>Please contact me back as soon possible as im in very urgent need of help!
>>
>>
>>Sincerely Zhan
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