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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:15:44 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        eculp@encontacto.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Message-ID:  <20070627201544.GB78601@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20070627145030.b8tzun7mswg8s0s8@intranet.encontacto.net>
References:  <20070627145030.b8tzun7mswg8s0s8@intranet.encontacto.net>

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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote:
>  I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm)  (1333.39-MHz=20
>  686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+=
=20
>  (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU).  I am still building a daily kernel with th=
e=20
>  old configuration and all is well.  Of course the old configuration was/=
is=20
>  i386.  Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps.  I have configured a sligh=
tly=20
>  modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a te=
st=20
>  only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=3DAMD doesn't f=
ind=20
>  /sys/amd64/conf/AMD.  There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 tha=
t=20
>  didn't work either.
>=20
>  The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compil=
ed=20
>  ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something ve=
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>  simple.
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It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate
partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list
archives. This question has come up before.

But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files,
configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles,
reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports
to your liking.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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