I need help deciding which ISO to install on my machine, which is a Compaq Presario SR1620NX. The FreeBSD/amd64 Project web page says the Sempron uses the AMD64 architecture so I installed the amd64 6.2-RELEASE ISO. Since I want to stay with STABLE I started reading on how to do it and am now confused as to what I should do.The /var/log/dmesg.today file says: CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ (1989.82-MHz k8-class CPU) Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x20ff2 Stepping=2 While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode and if anyone has this CPU they should be using the i386 ISO. Whether I use the i386 or amd64 ISO I will be putting the CPUTYPE?=k8 in my make.conf file so my question is "Since I am specifying the CPUTYPE should I stay with amd64 or start over with i386?" I am not worried about not having 64-bit capabilities, but I am worried that using the i386 ISO will not use the CPU to its fulest. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
On Friday 02 February 2007 15:46, Thomas Roberts wrote:> While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said > the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode > and if anyone has this CPU they should be using the > i386 ISO.I believe you can get 64 bit Semprons but they are AM2 or AM3 only.> Whether I use the i386 or amd64 ISO I will be putting > the CPUTYPE?=k8 in my make.conf file so my question is > "Since I am specifying the CPUTYPE should I stay with > amd64 or start over with i386?" I am not worried > about not having 64-bit capabilities, but I am worried > that using the i386 ISO will not use the CPU to its fulest.I don't think that running it in i386 mode will have a negative impact on performance - possibly the reverse due to cache size. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070202/a80f508a/attachment.pgp
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:16:12 -0800 (PST) Thomas Roberts <freebsd_tester@yahoo.com> mentioned:> I need help deciding which ISO to install on my > machine, which is a Compaq Presario SR1620NX. The > FreeBSD/amd64 Project web page says the Sempron uses > the AMD64 architecture so I installed the amd64 > 6.2-RELEASE ISO. Since I want to stay with STABLE I > started reading on how to do it and am now confused as > to what I should do.The /var/log/dmesg.today file > says: > > CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3400+ (1989.82-MHz > k8-class CPU) > Origin="AuthenticAMD" Id=0x20ff2 Stepping=2 > > While searching through bsdforums.org a poster said > the k8-class CPU is an Athlon64 locked in 32-bit mode > and if anyone has this CPU they should be using the > i386 ISO. > > Whether I use the i386 or amd64 ISO I will be putting > the CPUTYPE?=k8 in my make.conf file so my question is > "Since I am specifying the CPUTYPE should I stay with > amd64 or start over with i386?" I am not worried > about not having 64-bit capabilities, but I am worried > that using the i386 ISO will not use the CPU to its fulest. >Since you have successfully installed 6.2/amd64 this is essentially an AMD64-enabled machine. So don't worry and use amd64 edition and use k8 as CPU type. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070202/8047ec70/attachment.pgp