64-bit?
Sahil Tandon
sahil at tandon.net
Sat Jun 14 15:54:38 UTC 2008
Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Ryan Coleman wrote:
>>> I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well lately
>>> but there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and you're
>>> willing to share (as am I).
>>>
>>> This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit
>>> cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have
>>> anything to do with the crashes? Is there a stable 64-bit version of fBSD
>>> I should install? Will it upgrade the 32-bit or should I go from scratch?
>>
>> 6.3 supports 64-bit amd64-compatible CPUs, and stability is on par with
>> the 32-bit version. Besides which, amd64 CPUs are full backwards
>> compatible when run in 32-bit mode, so this is not the source of your
>> problems.
>>
>> Kris
>
> But will it upgrade or do I have to strike the current install and go again?
An upgrade may be possible, but a new installation is "recommended". Search
the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/ for context.
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Sahil Tandon <sahil at tandon.net>
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