From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 19:39:51 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 0993D1065678 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:39:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.76]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92B3F8FC16 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:39:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 77814 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Mar 2008 19:13:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=hAnA8jW4wik9ozTsRcdCowGwvFxH0SX2Nz+GlCe2PMsKbbfAK2xDPQnlJoEw7K8mh38bF9VE4boVcTRzJBR2jqu08XXki0LzWpaLnvvzYAd3aFM4K9DewLfoOEr6GwngJZYulEHFlqoMKkOYZA0J6JmhpS7ihu4UegBv+u/4Zns=; X-YMail-OSG: UX4qUJ4VM1k4I1RIIBbSWumhtgK08sGR6vrpeB9KijbkihFFoLTV8GYJnwNMlqTjkVUjp7wX5JqnKHc7LJy2VE5esS3gV4Y19BL.f6WM4pcNKH7.f.gs66TctXI6i9ATbFvZjjcpBdaDVug- Received: from [71.61.66.195] by web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:13:07 PDT Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh To: Tsu-Fan Cheng , FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <973879.77777.qm@web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: 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 19:39:51 -0000 --- 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