Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:22:31 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade SRC built i386 8.4 to 10.1 questions Message-ID: <E1ZMcAp-000KV8-Gr@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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> 1. can I use freebsd-update to migrate to 10.1 i386 not qualified to comment on this, to go from 8 to 10 I wuld recommend going via 9, as I am not sure it can be done in one step. > 2. can I use freebsd-update to migrate to 10.1 amd64 > 3. can I use source buildkernel + buildworld to migrate i386 8.4 to amd64 10.1 here you want to move from a 32 bit install to a 64 bit install. I have done this using the buildkernel + buoldworld process, but I had to use a second instagllation. Basically I upgraded to the latest version on the 32 bit platform, then installed a USB stick with the 64 bit platform, and upgraded that to exactly the same version. Then I booted from the USB stick and did an installworld & installkernel with the destination set to the hard discv with the 32 bit installation on it. That actually worked fine, it was on FreeBSD 8 I belive, I havent tried it recently, but it did shift the machine from 32 bit to 64 bit smoothly. Obviously you should not have any poirts installed whilst ding this, as they will need to be reinstalled for the new architecture. -pete.
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