From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 10:29:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8858A16A4E5 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:29:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com [68.99.120.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7DB43D49 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 10:29:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03 ([172.18.22.59]) by dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with SMTP id <20060815102927.VDPA21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:29:27 -0400 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16 (webedge20-101-1106-20040809) From: David Southwell Organization: vizion Communications To: Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 3:29:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20060815102927.VDPA21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> Subject: Upgrading a system 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, 15 Aug 2006 10:29:28 -0000 Hi I have a freebsd Generic System 6.0-RELEASE #0 compiled Thursday Nov 3 2005 originally on an Abit VA-20 motherboard equipped with an AMD sempron cpu in its 462 socket. The Abit motherboard died due to a chip failure and I did not feel like taking a risk using of the same thing happening again. I purchased a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 and installed an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor in the socket 939 and transferred the hardware to it. Apart from not yet getting X-windows to work I am pleased to report that system seems to be functioning well.(I have not yet worked out how to change the X config to support the nVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset). I now want to upgrade the system to FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-AMD64 and downloaded the appropriate iso images onto cd. Wopuld anyone care to offer some advice on the best way to proceed bearing in mind it is a very long time since I last upgraded in this way. Thanks David