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Subject: Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to
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Mikhail Goriachev wrote:

>Garrett Cooper wrote:
>  
>
>>Another valid question I suppose is whether or not I can move the
>>machine from a box with a Celeron CPU to one with an AMD CPU (not sure
>>if vendors matter even though ISAs are the same).
>>-Garrett
>>    
>>
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>I guess it would depend on the AMD processor. If it's 32bits then it
>falls into i386 category, same as the Celerons. If it is 64bits then it
>*might* still work in 32bits mode (backward compatibility). In the
>latter case I'd get and AMD64 copy of FreeBSD.
>  
>
i386 works just fine on AMD 64-bit processors.  No need for extra 
precautions.  As long as you didn't compile stuff with processor 
specific options then stuff just works.

--Alex