First time experience with AMD64

[Hugo Silva]

LOL

point well taken ;) I burned the ISO from my laptop, totally forgot 
about that.

:)

Astrodog wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 20:39:56 +0000, Hugo Silva <adm at celeritystorm.com> wrote:
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>>Hey all,
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>>I've just had my first experience with FreeBSD/AMD64. Perhaps naively,
>>I've built the world using the usual command sequence. After installing
>>the world, however, I've noticed all the system binaries are 32 bits. I
>>think this shouldn't be the case!
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>>Also, make buildkernel KERNCONF=name doesn't work (always says it cannot
>>find the kernel). I've placed my kernel config on
>>/usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ , this is the right directory to place it on a
>>64 bits machine, right ? Perhaps I need an extra switch to the make
>>buildkernel command, instructing a 64 bits architecture.
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>>Last but not the least, building my kernel "the old way" (config NAME,
>>cd.. /compile/NAME && make depend && make && make install) gives out a
>>bunch of errors right at the start and fails. I don't have the error
>>messages right now.
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>>The system is 5.3-STABLE as of last thursday.
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>>Any insight on this would be very much welcomed!
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>>Thanks.
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>It is somewhat important that you start with the amd64 ISOs. :)
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