From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 14:52:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59BC816A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:52:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asajunglab.com (asajunglab.com [64.62.241.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DB9543D3F for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from addymin@pacbell.net) Received: from 63.202.81.189 ([63.202.81.189]) by asajunglab.com for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:52:09 -0800 Message-ID: <41AC894B.5050007@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:52:59 -0800 From: Michael User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" References: <20041130042523.96025.qmail@web41004.mail.yahoo.com> <20041129232238.1a47b02c@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20041129232238.1a47b02c@dolphin.local.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: j p cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD- XP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: addymin@pacbell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:52:12 -0000 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:25:23 -0800 (PST), j p > wrote: > > >>i have a AMD XP 2200 chip. what version of freebsd i need to download. > > > You want the i386 distribution. The Athlon XP is still only a 32-bit > processor, so the amd64 is unusable. > I'm thinking about installing 5.3 on box with an AMD Sempron 2800. I think (?) that the Sempron is based on a 64-bit core. So would I use the amd64 version? Mike