[afnog] FreeBSD 7.2 on Sun

[Hugo Lombard]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:41:55AM +0300, Emmanuel Tessua wrote:
> Dear All,
> I have a sun server (Sun Fire X2200) and i want to install FreeBSD and
> then Postfix MTA.
> This server support both 32bit and 64bit OSes. I would like to install
> 64bit version of FreeBSD, which is on the same CD (4CDs 32/64 bit), how
> can i choose to install 64bit and not 32bit version!? When i install
> normal, it install 32 bit version of BSD, where i cant use the who 8 GB
> memory.
> Any help will be appreciated
> 

Hi

I think you're mistaken regarding the 32-bit and 64-bit versions being
on the same CDs:

hal:/home/hal:2$ ftp ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ 
Trying 149.20.64.73...
Connected to ftp.freebsd.org.
220 Welcome to freebsd.isc.org.
331 Please specify the password.
230 Login successful.
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
200 Switching to Binary mode.
250-If you're looking for one of the FreeBSD releases, please look in the
250-releases/${ARCH}/${RELNAME} directory, where ARCH = "alpha", "amd64",
250-"i386", "ia64", "pc98", or "sparc64" and RELNAME = the release
250-you're interested in, e.g. "7.1-RELEASE" or "8.0-RELEASE".
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     40970240 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     617416704 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     638531584 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     683708416 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     308557824 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-docs.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     2106367006 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     303054848 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002          485 May 01  2009 CHECKSUM.MD5
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002          730 May 01  2009 CHECKSUM.SHA256
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> cd /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/7.2
250 Directory successfully changed.
ftp> ls
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     39122944 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     587503616 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     632199168 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc2.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     670683136 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-disc3.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     308367360 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-docs.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     2040369172 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002     233490432 May 01  2009 7.2-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002          478 May 01  2009 CHECKSUM.MD5
-rw-r--r--    1 110      1002          723 May 01  2009 CHECKSUM.SHA256
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> ^D221 Goodbye.
hal:/home/hal:3$ 

amd64 is the 64-bit version, what Linux tends to call x86_64, and i386
is the 32-bit version.

Also, any specific reason you're not going for 8.2?

Regards

-- 
Hugo Lombard