Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 22:32:23 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Nicholas Sayer <nsayer@kfu.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conroe & Asus P5B. Should I convert? Message-ID: <20060822203223.GB8860@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com> References: <14D2911D-64BE-4625-8F59-BA0EA2B92A10@kfu.com>
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--+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:01:10AM -0700, Nicholas Sayer wrote: > I have a Conroe (E6600) running on an Asus P5B. This motherboard is =20 > based on the P965 chipset. Right now it's running as an i386. I've =20 > had to hack a few of the drivers to properly recognize this system, =20 > but the important parts of it do work correctly. >=20 > Since the CPU has EM64T capability, I'm considering switching the =20 > machine over. I've read some of the list archives and believe I can =20 > use a temporary 2nd drive to do the cross-build, boot and upgrade =20 > rigamarole. It might be easier to try and boot and install from a 6.1 amd64 CD-ROM. Then install your patches and build a new kernel+world. =20 > I'm a bit more concerned about the ports. I see the COMPAT_IA32 =20 > option in the kernel configuration. Can I expect my installed =20 > packages to work after the upgrade? Specifically at least Apache 2, =20 > PHP, JDK15, PostgreSQL 8.1 annd KDE? Since all these work natively on amd64, I wouldn't use the i386 versions. Especially if you'd like to link programs to the KDE or PostgreSQL libraries. I'm not sure if you can link a 64-bit program to a 32-bit library and expect it to work. > I guess since I have a working system now, I'm sort of looking for a =20 > reason not to break it. :) Make dumps of your partitions and back them up. If amd64 doesn't work well enough you can easily restore your i386 system. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE62nXEnfvsMMhpyURAvPWAJ4rRYQ8Y9rrthoD75Y1UWKkv/WelACfXx72 LpgqDKdXWtUl6c4LHJkXArY= =eo8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT--
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