Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:48:29 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64-bit? Message-ID: <4853E84D.80901@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4853E03A.3040307@cwis.biz> References: <4853E03A.3040307@cwis.biz>
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Ryan Coleman wrote: > I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well lately > but there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and you're > willing to share (as am I). > > This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit > cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have > anything to do with the crashes? Is there a stable 64-bit version of > fBSD I should install? Will it upgrade the 32-bit or should I go from > scratch? 6.3 supports 64-bit amd64-compatible CPUs, and stability is on par with the 32-bit version. Besides which, amd64 CPUs are full backwards compatible when run in 32-bit mode, so this is not the source of your problems. Kris
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