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Robert Atkinson wrote:
> To get a quick answer, is there a way to remotely (besides serial console &
> cd which I do not have), get an i386 (7.0) system to amd64?

Either reinstall, install the amd64 world+kernel onto another disk and 
boot that, or unmount your swap partition, newfs it and install there, 
then boot the kernel from that partition and copy back over onto the 
i386 partition.

Kris