From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 09:02:48 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8A0D916A41F for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:02:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6557A43D45 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id j9I92ixD027986; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:02:44 +0300 Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 18 Oct 05 12:02:20 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 18 Oct 05 12:02:15 +0300 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (192.168.1.2) by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 18 Oct 05 12:02:11 +0300 Message-ID: <4354BA31.5090500@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:02:41 +0300 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fraser References: <20051018070808.48448.qmail@web33002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051018070808.48448.qmail@web33002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD problem 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: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:02:48 -0000 Fraser wrote: > > recently i have ordered "FreeBSD 5.4 CDs" > from UK. Presently i am using "Celeron-600 on > SiS-630". I know "FreeBSD" will work on my system. > since i have Celeron i said to them that i have i386 > architecture. Now in the next month i want to purchase > a new computer (as i have an old & quite slow > machine). > > I am thinking of buying AMD-athlon-64. I know that > FreeBSD will work on AMD64 architecture but what i do > not know is will the same CDs will work for AMD64? There are two(*) separate versions of FreeBSD: one for i386 architecture and one for x86-64 architecture. Unfortunately I do not know whether the CD pack you purchased contains only i386 version or also the x86-64 version. What I do know, however, is that you can run the i386 version of FreeBSD on Athlon64. That's because Athlon64 has hardware-level 32-bit emulation and it can run any 32bit OS. So even if you only have the CDs for i386 version of FreeBSD, that's still no reason to not buy an Athlon64 machine. Hope this helps. (*) actually, there are more than two versions, but that's not relevant for our discussion here. -- Toomas Aas