From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 3 18:15:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0056B16A417 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [202.89.146.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A263F13C448 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:15:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4FE62850E; Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:59:40 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 06:59:40 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Christian Walther Message-ID: <20080103175940.GA9284@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <14989d6e0801030944m3f92a6d6i72326da6683ba7c6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0801030944m3f92a6d6i72326da6683ba7c6@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:15:47 -0000 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Marquis de Vauvenargues