Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:23:47 -0500 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing architecture from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <200808081523.47271.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <489CA4B2.7020503@kit-bg.com> References: <489CA4B2.7020503@kit-bg.com>
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On Friday 08 August 2008, Ivo Karabojkov wrote: > I hope to be able to "switch" my architecture without re-installing > FreeBSD with AMD64. I went through this last week. I use the 7.0 install disk to do an *upgrade* installation over the old one, booted into the new amd64 system, and upgraded kernel and world. Next, I manually reinstalled databases/db47, lang/ruby18, databases/ruby-bdb, and ports-mgmt/portupgrade. When that was done, I ran "portupgrade -fa" to recompile all the ports on my system. The only gotchas I had were that Berkeley databases aren't portable from 32-bit to 64-bit systems, and I used quite a few. A word to the wise: dump PostgreSQL to a text file before the upgrade. -- Kirk Strauser
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