[afnog] FreeBSD 7.2 on Sun

Emmanuel Tessua etessua at uccmail.co.tz
Wed May 18 10:43:12 UTC 2011


Hello Phil,
May be i'm mistaken. But i have those original CDs on a 4 cd compact, and
on top of each CD it is written, "A COMPLETE HIGH-PERFOMANCE 32/64 BIT
UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM", that is why i thought the same CDs has both
versions.
Well then, i am going to download ver 8.2.
Thank you.
> Emmanuel Tessua (etessua) writes:
>> 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 Emmanuel,
>
> 	I would suggest getting a version of FreeBSD 8.2 AMD64 from here:
>
> 	ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/8.2/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
>
> 	(you may have a closer mirror)
>
> 	If you absolutely want to use 7.2, one of the 4 CDs should have "amd64"
> 	or "64 bit" written on it - I don't believe there are both 64bit and
> 	32bit on the same CD, if you look closely.
>
> 	Cheers,
> 	Phil
>


Emmanuel Tessua
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etessua at uccmail.co.tz
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