Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:22:56 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <d36406631001120322w681298bw57da24fd051f3d4e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <hihbbi$auh$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <hif4om$amo$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B4B2140.5020202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <hihbbi$auh$1@ger.gmane.org>
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2010/1/12 Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You could do a binary upgrade from the cd (making sure you have a backup), then recompile all your old ports. Its a bit dirty but does work. eg I have taken a 4.2 box stright to 7.2 with this method. I did a make world and delete-old for completeness. I wasn't worried about having ufs v1 file systems but you might.
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