Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:37:24 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386->AMD64 upgrade path Message-ID: <1088530644.65309.9.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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> Apologies for the noob question (and perhaps a slightly-OT post), but > I've > been debating purchasing an AMD64 machine for about a month now. > Aside from > being lost in the myriad of available CPUs, I'm lost in the upgrade > path. > > According to the statement above, this means that I can boot, > buildworld, > buildkernel, installkernel, reboot into single-user, installworld, > rebuild > ports? Will that move me to a 64-bit platform? Or is there some > other > trickery to this? Would a binary upgrade be a better path? A binary upgrade would be better than the rebuild method and a clean install would be preferable. The one thing I ran into is all my databases had to be rebuilt as well. I didn't take this into consideration, but was fortunate that I had dumps. Things like ldap and postgres were my main concern. Other than that, there is one extra thing you have to do: Make sure you have IA32 options set in the kernel. You'll fail to boot the first time and have to use "/rescue/sh" as your shell and do a "/rescue/cp /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 /libexec/ld-elf32.so.1". After that, you should be able to reboot to single user mode and do the make installworld. Sean
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