AMD problem
Hi There, 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? I mean, does FreeBSD come in different types of hardware dependent CD packs (like Debian GNU/Linux uses 2 diffenent CD packs for x86 and AMD64)? -- if your answer is hardware dependent CD packs then i will not buy AMD-athlon-64, instead i will take CeleronD. (and will feel sad as i will not be able to assemble use a new hardware myself). -- if your answer is hardware independent CD packs then i will buy AMD-athlon-64 and take experience in assembling using a new hardware as i have already assembled Celeron and Pentium because these are frequently used in INDIA. I am learning PROGRAMMING and will take it as my professsion but i also want to have experience of different hardwares (like we have of different languages). ONE MORE QUESTION: My friend has AMD-sempron - 2500+. Will FreeBSD work on this one (I am asking because it is a 32 bit OS and Fedora-Core-3 can not be installed. again i need the answer in the form of hardware dependent/independent CD packs can you help me by providing answers to these 2 questions? thanks for your time. fraser If you did not find my questions appropriate to this mailing-list, PLEASE point me to the appropriate one. ** the Great Intellectuals __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD problem
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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
