From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 21:10:38 2005 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 676FF16A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:10:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web41826.mail.yahoo.com (web41826.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.94.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3274043D1F for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:10:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drumslayer2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 39308 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Mar 2005 21:10:38 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=NoetapmWpyYJB+rkeCdB4XKPf/4IhQuRQYXtSKIMbT7hVPJHAOpG8P2EGK8FMCBRMNq1AY1jIcSQBCNp+T5w/khLKF9m5tgfjieqGlYaUOGouIZryZ1Dd03NeZeAUKNY6L0qTaCQvGJh37y7zdTVeo/KpRDwrCzbwrWgj/rD92s= ; Message-ID: <20050323211038.39306.qmail@web41826.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.112.21.27] by web41826.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:10:37 PST Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:10:37 -0800 (PST) From: NMH To: Matthew Seaman , Boris Spirialitious In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:10:38 -0000 --- Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris > Spirialitious wrote: > > When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have > 4.9. > > 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. > > > 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 Actually, I use a ton of Opterons in IA32 mode that blow past the fastest pent 4's we tried. I have found them very stable, reliable and faster than the Pentium. (have not tried the Xeons) Of course they are even faster in 64 bit mode. But sadly most programs that I need don't work well or at all in 64 bit mode yet. N. > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > 8 Dane Court Manor > > School Rd > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > Tilmanstone > Tel: +44 1304 617253 > Kent, CT14 0JL UK > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/