From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 19:31:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DEA7106566C for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:31:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1250A8FC28 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:31:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tfcheng@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n30so2764508elf.7 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:31:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=CFufuMFE2FFgc46SyHtED50OhvYcYoSkzcLQtfLPbwg=; b=AeS/jem3pGXojytI3ORaXK77cDxwt/lJCyO2Jw/7hqGNlxsINoU9EQCTGJbsBZK/RFw2AD4DmlAVtiXEF9peREFvBlfEPuSR6RyHXnKiOFHXHkc5QyupcrYxxP8fV2aPwI+Bf0UzfubChCSF/jg/N9TdYTvRaLpBIRGJMtj3xy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uQ+X9fgy8SXin3qhPZRBL5+BYQ0dmOUR9M9MdveTTgAN9gNUrivwhIsVTdGKooi3iOnvuW/2vCPjMQqy5O0ChX29vxhJCLPZnmleP7/TNFyR/XMhOzx/t+fNUM1L4CIU92F/P+nrpHBr/UKSgtwLBKNR8k4w1BUFj4BNE4InONQ= Received: by 10.142.107.1 with SMTP id f1mr1704221wfc.10.1206646295792; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.11.10 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:31:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:31:35 -0400 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" To: mdh In-Reply-To: <973879.77777.qm@web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <973879.77777.qm@web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:31:37 -0000 forgot to mention, i am running i386 version, after finding out that lots of ports still not supported well under amd64 arch... TFC On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, mdh wrote: > > --- Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo > > to enjoy fbsd > > 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a > > new m-board+core > > 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system, > > and then allow me > > to recompile kernel and stuff? I thought about > > getting a new drive too > > to do a fresh install, but my bay is full and kinda > > on a budget, thank > > you!! > > If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run on > an Intel core2 duo based system. Maybe consider an > Athlon64 X2? You could also just backup your data, > then do a fresh install of FreeBSD 7 for whatever > architecture you decide to build out with, and restore > your data from the backup. > - mdh > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Looking for last minute shopping deals? > Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping >