Unclear which version I should D/L...

[Adam Vande More]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Phil <phil at philseymour.net> wrote:

> My apologies for raising what must appear to be a very basic question, but
> I am attempting to crawl out of the clutches of Microsoft and have little
> to no experience outside of the Windows domain.
> Having carefully looked at the vast array of Linux and Unix distro’s
> available, I am keen to install FreeBSD on a Sun Microsystems box that I
> recently obtained through Ebay. The machine has dual x86 processors (AMD)
> and 32 Gb RAM. The boot disks are SCSI Ultra 320’s.
> I have looked at your download mirror sites but am a little confused as to
> which version I should be getting.
> Any help would greatly appreciated. Thank you.
> Phil.
>

You'll want to get one of the AMD64 iso's from here:

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.0/

I generally use the disk1 or memstick image to install OS then install
packages from repo.  Don't forget to use freebsd-update after the install
to get latest security patches.



-- 
Adam