From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 14 14:39:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E084216A401 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB9E213C459 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:39:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2EEdLMV001774 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:39:21 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.42] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l2EEdK5p017300 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:39:21 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: References: X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <59AB7063-752F-4CE5-BB62-CF167C47DE61@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:39:19 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.3.14.72933 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: Core 2 Duo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:39:22 -0000 On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Goncalves, Antonio wrote: > >> It has Core 2 Duo and a NVidia 7950 GTX. Can you please let me >> know wish >> release shall I install? > > Both i386 and AMD64 versions will work, but you'll probably have > less problems with the i386 version. There are even nVidia binary > drivers for FreeBSD, but you must check if they support your card. i386 is 32-bit and amd64 is 64-bit. All newer Intel non-Itanium 64- bit chips are compatible with amd64. Like I discovered though you may want to grab an appropriate LiveCD to match your hardware though, because your hardware may be too recent for a release CD. See my thread about 5 days back in the archives--some people that replied gave me links to where the release CDs were. Cheers, -Garrett