From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 19:38:16 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A9DE16A46C for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DF713C4AC for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:38:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 30257 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2007 19:11:35 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Nov 2007 19:11:35 -0000 Message-ID: <4730BC31.5010300@chuckr.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:10:41 -0500 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071027 SeaMonkey/1.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: conversion of an installed base i386 -> amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:38:16 -0000 I have finally decided that I really should have installed my quad-core-2 equipped box as a amd64, instead of the i386 (32 bit should have been 64 bit). I just finished a buildworld, and I checked, the binaries (which I haven't yet done an installworld on) are actually amd64/64 bit binaries. I'm running -current, which is mostly why I;m on this list, but my question is one of installation order: in doing the conversion, I don't really like the idea of accidentally hanging the box. I would like someone to please let me know, what's next? Understand, I am still running the i386 compiler (but the buildworld builds it's own private compiler, thank you very much). I need to know, should I install the world next? Or, is there some more correct strategy to get the kernel built? Understand, I'm running a 3ware raid, and while I got that in position, to make me feel really safe, i installed the system first in a junk-pile EIDE drive I happened to have laying about, so I actually do have a emergency drive I can quite easily boot from, if some disaster happens. I've tried it, it serves me as a very safe backup right now. So, I don't need to worry TOO MUCH about a disaster, but I would like to avoid it as much as I could anyhow. Thanks.