FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
> When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. 
> is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x.

Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came in with 5.x, so
you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release version.  
 
> Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I
> use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any
> big problems?

You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be
the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an
equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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