Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:43:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Andrews <mandrews@bit0.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports? Message-ID: <20070617104023.V50590@bit0.com> In-Reply-To: <20070616222413.GA29804@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <6f50eac40706151829g64b8a8abg798f97449c05888f@mail.gmail.com> <f4veun$kq4$2@sea.gmane.org> <20070616030328.GA17075@rot13.obsecurity.org> <f50dkg$m71$1@sea.gmane.org> <20070616201921.GA29173@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20070616205234.GN2268@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20070616222413.GA29804@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> I may have had to use the statically linked /rescue to do some things, >>> I don't remember. It's not completely trivial, but someone who knows >>> their way around a FreeBSD system can do it. >> We did it by using miniroot on swap partition of the system disk. >> This approach has an advantage of keeping at least one good bootable >> base system installation in any moment. Also, it allows move in both >> directions, i.e. i386 <-> amd64. > > Yeah, that's a neat trick to remember. Another trick for doing > i386->amd64 is to install your new world into a DESTDIR, tar it up, > put the tarball onto the root filesystem, boot the new amd64 kernel > into single-user mode and use /rescue/tar to spam the amd64 tarball > over the i386 world. I've used the miniroot-on-swap approach before. Another trick I used this week (when I had to do four i386->amd64 migrations) was to build a netbootable amd64 system, PXE-boot that, and then installworld to the local disks that way.
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