From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 11:23:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4E03106566C for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C778FC15 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:23:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so95060fxm.3 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:22:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=V8pW3iE9xSGBriVzm4ZWdwur1sjfasnoTYXDdukhAJY=; b=KxLm/N98gG0uXxNCBIwTGWYYbpzjQdJ9ex+DX9y6KJCTCiwQ7TJwpgQGQeDmyPPWam 8G0AmUQ84oi8QGtuVvibKH1LQ3HJCYS4r9e1Yuw2UrA6BQBtC6xC+Q78RW7yIr+v+VKV mJH40xuoq+U1YiyFzbN0CCbuDB479P5yNm68U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=dLhDXuQidlfX2wAatWBi/pq3lcQPgG3SorVxu6GF/W0ybo+Z+u4oB8cNUaGgSFExhj VZBEdByF84IEi7vs3+ipMjvYEbkBbztsMFWkeTCoqGVY/7IjHjYkWcaCQzmcheUKPBy5 HlIkcOMgbmhwgXK3dnCdy57AUfLr5uh5l6DdU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.190.1 with SMTP id v1mr2833386hbh.122.1263295376496; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:22:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4B4B2140.5020202@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:22:56 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Michael Powell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Converting i386 to amd64 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: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:23:01 -0000 2010/1/12 Michael Powell > 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.