Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:55:36 +1100 From: Christopher Vance <c@nu.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: install questions Message-ID: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org>
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I have been a happy user of FreeBSD/i386 since 2.2.6. I have always tracked stable, and often had current on another partition. I have i386 install CDs for 5.2, and have successfully used them to install /i386 on my amd64. I am considering upgrading to /amd64 on the same machine. Can I use the sysinstall I already have to do a network install of /amd64 stuff from a server somewhere, or do I need a 64-bit sysinstall to do this from? I'm happy to newfs the partition if that's appropriate - it has nothing valuable on it. I've seen suggestions that I can run /i386 stuff on /amd64 provided the kernel emulation is included and the 32-bit libraries are present. Are these 32-bit libraries identical to the i386 ones, or have they been tweaked to know they are emulating on /amd64? The SATA controller is a VIA, not the SiI 3512A &^%$ which made me abandon FreeBSD on a different machine. Any other things I need to know? (I've made a brief foray into Gentoo on this machine, and I'd rather do FreeBSD, where things are the way I'm used to.) -- Christopher Vance
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