Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:20:09 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <hihbbi$auh$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <hif4om$amo$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B4B2140.5020202@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >> Greetings everyone: [snip] >> >> Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) > > This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than > you're anticipating. Unless you're the sort of person that likes doing > terribly complicated and risky procedures for the hell of it, you are > going to be better off just starting from scratch and reinstalling using > an AMD64 .iso. It's going to be quicker to reinstall anyhow. > > Cheers, > > Matthew OK, that's what I needed to know. It just didn't seem as if something as complex as a cross build could be handled with just one little "TARGET=xxx". Terrible and complicated for no real gain is not my style. I like KISS. I have done scratch reloads before and can handle it just fine, it's more a time management fork in the road issue. This tells me I can allocate xxxx amount of time for a scratch reload as opposed to yyyy time for 'terrible and complicated'. It just means more console time instead of coming by once an hour for a few minutes. I'll stick with what I know will work then, and budget my time accordingly. Thanks for the reply! -Mike
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