Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:34:38 +0300 From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>, todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade SRC built i386 8.4 to 10.1 questions Message-ID: <CA%2B7WWSfzqEq9d5N7oG81SrUUz57yv1eN19P4VWUsxHzrepVKpQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1ZMcAp-000KV8-Gr@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> References: <E1ZMcAp-000KV8-Gr@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk>
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> wrote: >> 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. I've done a similar operation: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/migrating-an-i386-installation-to-amd64-without-reinstall.50495/ Remember to run mergemaster(8) with the correct options for the target platform (amd64) or you'll install some wrong configuration files. HTH, -Kimmo
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