Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:23:00 +1100 From: Christopher Vance <c@nu.org> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <20041214052300.GC864@nu.org> In-Reply-To: <20041212004733.6d613953@dolphin.local.net> References: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org> <20041212004733.6d613953@dolphin.local.net>
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On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:47:33AM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: >On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:55:36 +1100, Christopher Vance <c@nu.org> wrote: >> I am considering upgrading to /amd64 on the same machine. Can >> I use the sysinstall I already have to do a network install of /amd64 >> stuff from a server somewhere, or do I need a 64-bit sysinstall to do >> this from? I'm happy to newfs the partition if that's appropriate - >> it has nothing valuable on it. > >You can do what I did: cvsup the complete source tree, setup a new >kernel config file under sys/amd64/conf and do a buildworld buildkernel, >etc. with TARGET_ARCH=amd64. Worked great for me! I ended up downloading a minimal install ISO, doing a small install, then upgraded from source which I already had around on another machine. >Running IA32 binaries *is* possible, but it's still a little kludgey. >I've managed to get things to run in experiments, but on the whole, I'd >just as soon not even bother with 32-bit stuff (except for Linux >emulation, where 32-bit is all we've got for now). I did the build32/install32 stuff, but I haven't tried using 32-bit stuff yet. >HTH Ta muchly. -- Christopher Vance
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