Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:44:33 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg@webanoide.org>, Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can drive with 6.1 be directly transferred from one machine to another? Message-ID: <44758A91.3040407@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <4474FA6C.40702@webanoide.org> References: <44748890.7010301@u.washington.edu> <44748A37.6040801@u.washington.edu> <4474FA6C.40702@webanoide.org>
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Mikhail Goriachev wrote: >Garrett Cooper wrote: > > >>Another valid question I suppose is whether or not I can move the >>machine from a box with a Celeron CPU to one with an AMD CPU (not sure >>if vendors matter even though ISAs are the same). >>-Garrett >> >> > > >I guess it would depend on the AMD processor. If it's 32bits then it >falls into i386 category, same as the Celerons. If it is 64bits then it >*might* still work in 32bits mode (backward compatibility). In the >latter case I'd get and AMD64 copy of FreeBSD. > > i386 works just fine on AMD 64-bit processors. No need for extra precautions. As long as you didn't compile stuff with processor specific options then stuff just works. --Alex
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