On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 05:30:29PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote: > On February 18, 2015 11:43:56 AM CET, Markus Kolb <open...@tower-net.de> > wrote: > >Am 2015-02-17 17:27, schrieb A Y: > >> dmesg|grep ^.d0 returns only "sd0" > >> sysctl hw.disknames returns "sd0" and "rd0" > >> > >> my machine is a 10.1 inch netbook Lenovo E10-30 running Intel Celeron > > > >> N2830 > >> Dual Core 64 bit. Do you think I should have used amd64 installation > >> instead > >> of i386? > > > >Will depend mostly on your available RAM. > >i386 is 32 bit. > > Either way, I see no reason not to run amd64 on that processor.
Won't i386 use less memory making it more efficient up to about 2 GB of RAM which this machine has? Of course, if RAM would be added you would regret not having installed amd64... > > /Alexander > > > > >See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_limit#32-bit_x86_RAM_limit -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
