From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 00:31:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD9216A420 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:31:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=083585f973@iecc.com) Received: from gal.iecc.com (gal.iecc.com [208.31.42.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09E913C43E for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:31:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from prvs=johnl=083585f973@iecc.com) Received: (qmail 85001 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2007 00:04:14 -0000 Received: from simone.iecc.com (208.31.42.47) by mail1.iecc.com with QMQP; 18 Nov 2007 00:04:14 -0000 Date: 18 Nov 2007 00:04:14 -0000 Message-ID: <20071118000414.20397.qmail@simone.iecc.com> From: John Levine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <473F7EE7.4080405@gmail.com> Organization: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Subject: Re: congrlations to the freebsd developers 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: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:31:03 -0000 >> You can run FreeBSD/i386 on amd64 boxes. > >All the different methods people have suggested to me for doing this >has blown up.... You just boot the 386 install disk and install it, the same as you do on any other 386 box. Works great for me. If you want to run some 386 applications on top of an amd64 kernel, I agree that's a lot trickier. If I had more time, I would work on getting cross-compiling ports to work properly.