From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 19:16:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F120416A402 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:16:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from corpmail.itlegion.ru (corpmail.itlegion.ru [84.21.226.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C71213C461 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 19:16:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: (qmail 30791 invoked from network); 9 Mar 2007 22:16:42 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO Artem) (192.168.0.12) by 84.21.226.211 with SMTP; 9 Mar 2007 22:16:42 +0300 X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 4.33, engine: 4.33.5.10110, virus records: 180800, updated: 9.03.2007] Message-ID: <000c01c7627f$7636f3f0$0c00a8c0@Artem> From: "Artem Kuchin" To: "Peter Jeremy" References: <6D01FD53-497A-46FE-ADC3-4988DB2ADD74@khera.org> <002301c76274$04d05900$0c00a8c0@Artem> <20070309184555.GF856@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:16:36 +0300 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="ISO-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:16:45 -0000 >>>>Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via >>>>csup and >>>>source build? >... >>Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. > >Definitely. > >>Theoretically, what would be the procedure? > >1) Backup system. >2) Download amd64 install ISO and burn to CD >3) Boot from CD >4) Follow instructions for fresh install >5) Restore/merge configuration from backups. > >If you have a spare amd64 system and most of the content is static, >you could reduce downtime by doing steps 4 thru 5 on the second system >and either swapping the disk(s) or the entire system. no, that's no what i ment. I mean the procedure to source build/install amd64 on x86 and make it work. Just theoretically, -- Artem