Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86 architecture.
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Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating point unit are supported. All Intel(R) processors 486 or higher are supported.
However, binaries released by the project are compiled for the 686 processor, so a special build will be needed for 486 and 586 systems.
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FreeBSD will take advantage of Physical Address Extensions (PAE) support on CPUs with this feature. A kernel with the PAE feature enabled will detect memory above 4 GB and allow it to be used by the system. However, using PAE places constraints on device drivers and other features of FreeBSD.
arm64::
Most embedded boards are 64-bit ARM computers.
A number of arm64 servers are supported.
arm::
Older armv7 boards are supported.
powerpc::
All New World ROM Apple(R) Mac(R) systems with built-in USB are supported. SMP is supported on machines with multiple CPUs.
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A 32-bit kernel can only use the first 2 GB of RAM.
sparc64::
Systems supported by FreeBSD/sparc64 are listed at the link:https://www.FreeBSD.org/platforms/sparc/[FreeBSD/sparc64 Project].
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SMP is supported on all systems with more than 1 processor. A dedicated disk is required as it is not possible to share a disk with another operating system at this time.
[[bsdinstall-pre]]
== Pre-Installation Tasks
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|MBR
|Master Boot Record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record]).
|VTOC8
|Volume Table Of Contents used by Sun SPARC64 and UltraSPARC computers.
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After the partitioning scheme has been selected and created, select btn:[Create] again to create the partitions. The kbd:[Tab] key is used to move the cursor between fields.
Warner Losh
3 years ago