Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) egg and chicken problem ...
On Friday, 2006, December 8 at 3:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Bonnet) wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it does not work it seems the Adaptec patch for serverRAID 8k is not present in 6.2-RC1 as sysinstall does not find any disk this is an egg and chicken problem ! How to rebuild a new patched amd64 ISO as I only have *this* 64 bits machine and cannot acces to hard disks ? I had a similar problem with my 3ware card when I first installed 6.0. The 3ware card was brand new and not yet in the base system, but a driver was posted on their site. How I solved the problem is that I installed another card that was supported in the base system, another hard drive that worked with the card (UltraDMA 133 card/hard drive IIRC). After installing on that hard drive, and patching to support my raid card, I booted off the patched drive and the raid array was then recognized. I used dump/restore to move the patched system from the IDE hard drive to the raid array, then could boot off the raid array as desired and could remove the extra card/hard drive. HTH. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. -- Kind Regards Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it does not work it seems the Adaptec patch for serverRAID 8k is not present in 6.2-RC1 as sysinstall does not find any disk -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits ) egg and chicken problem ...
Frank Bonnet wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Vince wrote: Vince wrote: Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince, OK i'm going to have a try with it I'll let you know how it worked. Well :-( it does not work it seems the Adaptec patch for serverRAID 8k is not present in 6.2-RC1 as sysinstall does not find any disk this is an egg and chicken problem ! How to rebuild a new patched amd64 ISO as I only have *this* 64 bits machine and cannot acces to hard disks ? -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead of sendmail ) it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that will be integrated in 6.2 ... If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never did that but there is probably a way to do it :-) Thanks again -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Frank Bonnet wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead of sendmail ) it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that will be integrated in 6.2 ... If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never did that but there is probably a way to do it :-) you could try installing from the RC-1 images if your impatient. (ISOs in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 on your favorite mirror) Vince Thanks again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Vince wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Peter A. Giessel wrote: It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. Well thanks for your answer, the machine will be our mailhub so its configuration will be close to yours ( except I'll run postfix instead of sendmail ) it will have 7Gb RAM so I have to go for AMD64 I discover after posting my email to the list the the serverRAID shipped with my x3650 is not yet supported at 6.1 (no disk seen at install) but I read in an archive there is a patch (in aac) provided by Adaptec that will be integrated in 6.2 ... If the 6.2 delay is too long I'll try to apply the patch myself, I never did that but there is probably a way to do it :-) you could try installing from the RC-1 images if your impatient. (ISOs in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 on your favorite mirror) Sorry lacking coffeee this morning I mean of course /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/6.2 /me goes back to sleep now. Vince Vince Thanks again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
Hello I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Of course it is a 64 bits machine infos, links welcome thanks -- Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
On 2006/12/06 0:36, Frank Bonnet seems to have typed: Hello I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Of course it is a 64 bits machine infos, links welcome thanks It depends on what you are going to do with it. This question has been asked many times on this e-mail list, so you might want to start by searching the archives. If you are running desktop applications on it (such as X11), you might be better off running the i386 version as some ports don't support AMD64, however, if you have more than 4GB of RAM and/or are running all ports that support AMD64, you'd probably be better off running AMD64. I'm running AMD64 with Apache22, PHP5, MySQL40, Dovecot, Sendmail, SASL2, Horde-IMP, and some other things and it works great (Opteron 246 x2, 4GB RAM, 3Ware raid card), but YMMV. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Which version to use ( Xeon 64 bits )
I just receive a new IBM X3650 server bi-proc XEON and I wonder which version of FreeBSD to use with it I386 or AMD64 ? Do you have more than 4GB of RAM? If not, I'd recommend sticking with i386. There are very few things that will actually run any faster with the AMD64 version (notably, media encoding/decoding and anything else that can take advantage of the 64-bit registers for math operations). Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
