From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 17:07:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F08AB1065675 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itasyno@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826968FC13 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbdr11 with SMTP id dr11so2295384wgb.31 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:07:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=cVCk6ixourInJQizM9jydcSruv3tg7fUnX/QcZmjBoI=; b=ZIr01YWqPwU/YSwWjtZ+BXnXR1AdSJizgRgcSen/kvH8Z4Vz46tMiL88MRyHZQdxLM AN2A0SSvP1KyxsWRQ0q4UOy+nCreGfTdJSM7iTZ8kJUq5V02NE3RcevWbLCLYXf+q/bs sTO/XIPIL1aeRyVsoypSRCfn4CZVegtQzE3Ek= Received: by 10.180.19.168 with SMTP id g8mr7800629wie.4.1326388022696; Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([2.26.61.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m13sm6458200wbh.0.2012.01.12.09.07.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:07:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F0F1334.8090809@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:00 +0000 From: Frank Lay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/3.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Trulsson References: <4F0F040D.7040609@gmail.com> <20120112170344.GA16972@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20120112170344.GA16972@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clarification about AMD64 port for Core Duo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:04 -0000 On 12/01/12 17:03, Erik Trulsson wrote: > The later Core 2 series supports both 64-bit and 32-bit operation and > became quite popular, and I am fairly certain that most of the people > you say you have seen claiming to run FreeBSD with a Core Duo are > actually using a Core 2 Duo. As for your own C2D E8400, well the 'C2D' > is short for 'Core 2 Duo', so yes it should support amd64 just fine. Thank you Erik for the clarification. I overlooked that! Now to attempt my installation. :-) Cordially, Frank.