Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:59:40 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <20080103175940.GA9284@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0801030944m3f92a6d6i72326da6683ba7c6@mail.gmail.com> References: <14989d6e0801030944m3f92a6d6i72326da6683ba7c6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
[...]
> I searched the net for some information on migrating from i386 to
> amd64. I'd like to build a new kernel for amd64, reboot. Do a
> buildworld and installworld and a "portupgrade -afk --batch"
> afterwards.
The approach that I took was to do a new install, build/install world,
portupgraded, and then plugged in my old hard-drive, and transferred
/etc, /var and all other data across. Took about a day, and went
surprisingly well.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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