On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:20 -0500, Brandon Gooch
jamesbrandongo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Arvid Warnecke
arvid.warne...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been thinking about FreeBSD on the Macbook Pro dual booting (I
need Mac OSX for photography software), but I am not sure if
On 12/10/2010 12:39:59, Jud wrote:
My reading on the
FreeBSD website appears to indicate that the correct 64-bit version for
the Core 2 Duo would be ia-64
Wrong.
amd64
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard
ia64 is for Intel Itanium - NOT Core 2 Duo. The core 2 duo extends it's 64
bit instructions from the Intel EMT64 extensions. You can read up on this
topic further at Wikipedia if you'd like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMT64#Intel_64
To summarize though - AMD64 is the platform you're looking
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 07:39:59AM -0400, Jud wrote:
Here's an excellent place to start your research:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook
I've got a 13 MacBook Pro, version 5,5 specifically, with an Intel Core
2 Duo CPU and 4GB RAM (and a 256GB SSD, though I'm reasonably sure
that's
