Re: Install i386 or amd64?

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

Hi, Reference:
> From:         "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>
> Date:         Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:38:40 +0000 (UTC)

"Thomas Mueller" wrote:
> 
> Excerpt from Brett Lymn:
> 
> > In that case, why mention PAE at all?  There was pretty clear advice
> > prior to your email recommending just running amd64.  Your message
> > looked to be implying that i386/PAE was just as functional as amd64.
> > This is not the case.
> 
> Not to argue that i386/PAE is just as functional as amd64, but having an i386 
> installation is useful for some applications that only work on 32-bit, such 
> as wine, though I believe there is early development for 64-bit.
> 
> I want to test and hopefully benefit from MS-Windows functionality, but this 
> does not bar having amd64 and i386 installations on different (GPT) 
> partitions or different drives.
> 
> I want to do that with FreeBSD (wine) and Linux where I'd have better chance 
> of success than with NetBSD.
> 
> Tom

FYI no wine on latest FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE amd64
cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine ; make
        ===>  wine-1.6.1,1 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.
cd /usr/ports/emulators/wine-devel ; make
        ===>  wine-devel-1.7.8,1 is only for i386, while you are running amd64.

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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