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Subject: Re: x86 to amd64 upgrade
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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 04:18 pm, Francisco G=F3mez Mar=EDn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I am running FreeBSD-AMD64 5.3 in my Athlon64 box. If I install on it
> the x86 version, could it be possible to upgrade to the amd64 without
> reinstalling? any experiences?

Not without much pain and suffering.  A reinstall is really the only viable=
=20
choice.  Note that you could make sure and stick all your data on a /data=20
partition or some such and when you reinstall FreeBSD/amd64 just not newfs=
=20
that partition so you keep the actual data.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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