Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:57:12 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> Cc: ipfreak@yahoo.com, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: intel 64-bit version? Message-ID: <498709C8.1090106@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <"20090202154016.5fd0a5a3.cyb."@gmx.net> References: <769541.13800.qm@web52112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <"20090202154016.5fd0a5a3.cyb."@gmx.net>
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Andreas Rudisch wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 06:24:35 -0800 (PST) > gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> What is the image for intel 64-bit version of freebsd? i have xeon machine and would like to install freebsd on it. >> > > You can use 7.1-RELEASE-i386 (32bit) or 7.1-RELEASE-amd64 (64bit) > depending on whether or not you are going to run 64 bit software or > want to use more than 4GB of RAM. > > Andreas > -- > GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ > Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 > It is a little more complicated... i386 also supports >4GB with the PAE kernel option... it is frequently better to use this then to use amd64 because (a decreasing I hope) number of ports do not compile and/or work properly on amd64... for example if your using the machine as a GUI desktop *AND* you have a nvidia video card you get almost 10 times better performence with i386 because amd64 has a hard time reconizing PCI cards installed "above" the 4gb limit (the phsycial addr is above RAM)
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