Kernel settings for Dell 1850 and 2850 with 4GB of ram
Bill Moran
wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Tue Mar 21 20:07:19 UTC 2006
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:57:15 -0500
Ian Lord <mailing-lists at msdi.ca> wrote:
> I am currently running freebsd 6 (amd64) on dells servers that have
> dual xeon processors in them. There is also 4 gigs of ram in them.
>
> I need to reinstall cause I want to go to i386 version (too much
> problems finding binairies compatible with amd64 with commercial vendors)
>
> Could someone tell me:
>
> 1- What is the cpu I need to specify in my config ?
>
> 2- Do I need to run PAE to have access to all my 4 gigs of ram ?
Yes. Without PAE, the kernel will only see 3.5G.
I don't know the answers to your other questions, however.
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Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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