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Update Handbook hardware requirements. Patch supplied by Timothy Moore

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<sect1 xml:id="bsdinstall-hardware">
<title>Minimum Hardware Requirements</title>
<para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by the
hardware architecture. Hardware architectures
<para>The hardware requirements to install &os; vary by
architecture. Hardware architectures
and devices supported by a &os; release are listed on the
Release Information page of the &os; web site (<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/index.html</link>).</para>
<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/releases/index.html">&os; Release Information</link>
page.
The <link xlink:href="&url.base;/where.html">&os; download page</link>
also has recommendations for choosing the
correct image for different architectures.</para>
<para>A &os; installation will require a minimum 64&nbsp;MB of
<acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5&nbsp;GB of free hard drive space
for the most minimal installation. However, that is a
<emphasis>minimal</emphasis> install, leaving almost no
free space. RAM requirements depend on usage. Specialized
FreeBSD systems can run in as little as 128MB RAM while desktop
systems should have at least 4&nbsp;GB
of <acronym>RAM</acronym>.</para>
<para>A &os; installation requires a minimum of 64&nbsp;MB of
<acronym>RAM</acronym> and 1.5&nbsp;GB of free hard drive space.
However, such small amounts of memory and disk space are really
only suitable for custom applications like embedded appliances.
General-purpose desktop
systems need more resources. 2-4&nbsp;GB RAM and
at least 8&nbsp;GB hard drive space is a good starting point.</para>
<para>The processor requirements for each architecture can be
summarized as follows:</para>
<para>These are the processor requirements for each architecture:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.amd64;</term>
<listitem>
<para>This is the most common type of processor desktop and
laptop computers will have. Other vendors may call this
architecture <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para>
<para>There are two primary vendors of &arch.amd64;
processors: &intel; (which produces
<acronym>Intel64</acronym> class processors) and AMD
(which produces <acronym>AMD64</acronym>).</para>
<para>This is the most common desktop and laptop processor type,
used in most modern systems. &intel; calls it <acronym>Intel64</acronym>.
Other manufacturers sometimes call it <acronym>x86-64</acronym>.</para>
<para>Examples of &arch.amd64; compatible processsors
include: &amd.athlon;64, &amd.opteron;,
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<varlistentry>
<term>&arch.i386;</term>
<listitem>
<para>This architecture is the 32-bit x86
<para>Older desktops and laptops often use this 32-bit, x86
architecture.</para>
<para>Almost all i386-compatible processors with a floating
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<para>&os; will take advantage of Physical Address
Extensions (<acronym>PAE</acronym>) support on
<acronym>CPU</acronym>s that support this feature. A
<acronym>CPU</acronym>s with this feature. A
kernel with the <acronym>PAE</acronym> feature enabled
will detect memory above 4&nbsp;GB and allow it to be used
by the system. This feature places constraints on the
device drivers and other features of &os; which may be
used; refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para>
by the system. However, using <acronym>PAE</acronym> places constraints on
device drivers and other features of
&os;. Refer to &man.pae.4; for details.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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<term>&arch.sparc64;</term>
<listitem>
<para>Systems supported by &os;/&arch.sparc64; are listed at
the FreeBSD/sparc64 Project (<link
xlink:href="&url.base;/platforms/sparc.html">http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html</link>).</para>
the <link
xlink:href="&url.base;/platforms/sparc.html">FreeBSD/sparc64 Project</link>.</para>
<para><acronym>SMP</acronym> is supported on all systems
with more than 1 processor. A dedicated disk is required
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<para>If one or more disks are missing from the list, or if
disks were attached after the installer was started, select
<guibutton>- Rescan Devices</guibutton> to repopulate the list
of available disks. To ensure that the correct disks are
selected, so as not to accidently destroy the wrong disks, the
of available disks.
To avoid accidentally erasing the wrong disk, the
<guibutton>- Disk Info</guibutton> menu can be used to inspect
each disk, including its partition table and various other
information such as the device model number and serial number,
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<title>Shell Mode Partitioning</title>
<para>When creating advanced installations, the
<application>bsdinstall</application> paritioning menus may
<application>bsdinstall</application> partitioning menus may
not provide the level of flexibility required. Advanced users
can select the <guibutton>Shell</guibutton> option from the
partitioning menu in order to manually partition the drives,