From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 15:57:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED36E106564A for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:57:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from neshort@yahoo.com) Received: from n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com (n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.237.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93E418FC14 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [68.142.237.90] by n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Apr 2010 15:43:52 -0000 Received: from [216.252.111.166] by t6.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Apr 2010 15:43:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp101.mail.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 30 Apr 2010 15:43:52 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 189066.62916.bm@omp101.mail.re3.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 61425 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Apr 2010 15:43:51 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1272642230; bh=V4iKtK0vIDiu2p6WOAWcXQJn8K4jzUq2aJPNhPSfRCw=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=tD8i1/4rZ/z9GGzfJrsR/JqqkmKBogaVIgIVnayIyuqBO0JDZczAuNXDIAsOvrAsvRY68s0RD0xfTjUTwj1Hd90D+EKc01ao+6sKgS4W9quX9wimO6WCZUDlX6wzHCwdq6QCuf4VQt236WNuZdse4NYvIX9Utcvmij7ZnR3qx78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=aWM2qHO0v+KtwhLfszhO0b6dYN0BNWnuweWekyU1LhscBxl+xtw6FcRyq/hBA6Eg0S5zzcZlh2XA+AlQF3aihtBGjVaDBCVJilC/1gGvjZgzLFEeKI0qV7nrP2Z0t2I0RR6cawfQxW7lSj8Vl+YjaT7hZLScZf2hRMv46+GHHqQ=; Message-ID: <937238.61408.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Qsw1Nm4VM1mIGprgeWsuwmjo3qgZuvOH2NebIaMqVaMrPWo okfpPkGMGcSM7SnGjq66EMq6D0Y1_jrKhKFk0oXWCwoCqLbhltgnXfehjjME O_KFgvLXWXGe0BZ.APcY8bVT4r8PaFLbftlpMK1CW8ewbit1zcxldWWjmXt9 iOING5eULiuvcX_o.KVFGJDi5GuOjKqz_XcfRw620aWBx0407T5HtaPJwwgH fgtNhuR_aaTJhU3P7hV25rvJv_ocphASrhRerWFcKpF.Iuh66hYjTLSov7nl 5H9jF7KDSwR6vodtM4jRbW08d Received: from [173.84.5.162] by web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:43:50 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/10.1.11 YahooMailWebService/0.8.102.267879 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:43:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Short To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: upgrading from 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: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:57:08 -0000 Based upon a different question in this forum, I find myself motivated to upgrade my i386 install to AMD64. Can this be done by a simple kernel rebuild or a binary upgrade? Is a full reinstallation necessary?