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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:28:49 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        David T <david4731@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?
Message-ID:  <20080221192800.E2761@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <BAY137-W210A5E58DD3C4972FB03F0B01C0@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY137-W210A5E58DD3C4972FB03F0B01C0@phx.gbl>

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> [root@web1 /usr/local]# uname -aFreeBSD web1.machine.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan  6 22:37:33 CST 2008     root@web1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/web1  amd64

you did all right. you installed 64-bit kernel on 64-bit capable machine.

amd64 is just a standard for 64-bit extension of x86, not AMD processors.

i run FreeBSD/amd64 on core2 duo for example



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