Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86 architecture.
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.
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.
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::
powerpc::
All New World ROM Apple(R) Mac(R) systems with built-in USB are supported. SMP is supported on machines with multiple CPUs.
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.
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]]
[[bsdinstall-pre]]
== Pre-Installation Tasks
== Pre-Installation Tasks
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|MBR
|MBR
|Master Boot Record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record]).
|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.
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