Re: 64-bit? [Thanks!]

[Ryan Coleman]

Thanks everyone!

I'm going to do a fresh install to a new drive that I am picking up in 
an hour or so from a local retailer.


--
Ryan

Sahil Tandon wrote:

Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

Kris Kennaway wrote:


Ryan Coleman wrote:
  
I'm full of questions, I know... And I haven't been googling well lately 
but there seem to be a lot of you with a lot of knowledge and you're 
willing to share (as am I).


This machine is running a D2C E4600 which (as I understand) is a 64-bit 
cpu, but I'm running fBSD 6.3 which is *not* 64-bit? Might this have 
anything to do with the crashes? Is there a stable 64-bit version of fBSD 
I should install? Will it upgrade the 32-bit or should I go from scratch?

6.3 supports 64-bit amd64-compatible CPUs, and stability is on par with 
the 32-bit version.  Besides which, amd64 CPUs are full backwards 
compatible when run in 32-bit mode, so this is not the source of your 
problems.


Kris
  

But will it upgrade or do I have to strike the current install and go again?



An upgrade may be possible, but a new installation is recommended.  Search 
the archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/ for context.


  


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Re: 64-bit? [Thanks!]

[RW]

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:02:25 -0500
Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Thanks everyone!
 
 I'm going to do a fresh install to a new drive that I am picking up
 in an hour or so from a local retailer.

If this is a server than you almost certainly should go with the 64 bit
version. If it's for a desktop then I would suggest you search the
list for the pros and cons - I'm not going to go into them, it's been
done to death.
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