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Subject: Re: migrating to 64-bit
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I recently got an ia64 box at work, and I threw my i386 freebsd 5.4 on it.
> Now, is there a way to rebuild world with 64-bit support from there?

Hi Mike,

I believe that ia64 refers to the Itanium port of FreeBSD, and I'm not
sure of the i386 version will install on Itanium. Are you referring to the
AMD64/EMT-64 port of FreeBSD?

-Andy.