Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:05:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question Message-ID: <20050316200556.GA711@gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <20050315165022.34669.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com> References: <20050315165022.34669.qmail@web90203.mail.scd.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote:
> When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9.=20
> is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x.
Well, AMD64 support as a tier-1 platform only came in with 5.x, so
you're S.O.L. if you have to use a 4.x release version. =20
=20
> Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I
> use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any
> big problems?
You can generally run AMD64 machines in IA32 mode -- but what would be
the point? All you get then is a machine that costs more than an
equivalent IA32 box and that probably performs worse.
Cheers,
Matthew
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