[geeks] FreeBSD advice please?

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Tue Mar 10 13:28:10 CDT 2009


Phil Stracchino wrote:
> OK, that looks like the odds are strongly *against* this processor
> stepping *not* having 64-bit support.  I'll go ahead and download the
> amd64 ISOs and burn new CDs.

(Footnote:  The liveCD and docs ISOs are only about 200MB each.  I don't
 quite understand why they couldn't have combined those onto a single
disc, to make a four-disc set instead of five.  Four-disc cases are easy
to find.  Six-disc cases are as rare as hens' teeth.)


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