FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

[Boris Spirialitious]

--- cyb <cyb. at gmx.net> wrote:
> http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html
> 
> Looks like you will need to use 5.3-release (or
> 5.3-stable/5.4-prerelease if you have more than
> 4GB).
> 
> Why can you not use 5.3?

5.3 is too slow, and we have custom code. Why use
faster hardware just to use slower version of O/S?
Please don't start with flames. This is what I
feel.

I don't need so much RAM, so 4.x will work with
1 or 2GB of RAM?

Boris




> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 09:43 -0800, Boris
> Spirialitious wrote:
> > --- Boris Spirialitious <hardcodeharry at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have
> 4.9. 
> > > is supported? Or 4.11 better? I can't use 5.x.
> > > 
> > > Will a i386 disk boot on opteron system? Can I
> > > use same disk image for intel and amd MBs? Any
> > > big problems?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Boris
> > 
> > Does anyone know answer please? Someone must use
> > Opteron here
> > 
> > Boris
> 
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