Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:47:33 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Christopher Vance <c@nu.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions Message-ID: <20041212004733.6d613953@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org> References: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org>
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On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:55:36 +1100, Christopher Vance <c@nu.org> wrote: > I have been a happy user of FreeBSD/i386 since 2.2.6. I have always > tracked stable, and often had current on another partition. > > I have i386 install CDs for 5.2, and have successfully used them to > install /i386 on my amd64. > > I am considering upgrading to /amd64 on the same machine. Can > I use the sysinstall I already have to do a network install of /amd64 > stuff from a server somewhere, or do I need a 64-bit sysinstall to do > this from? I'm happy to newfs the partition if that's appropriate - > it has nothing valuable on it. You can do what I did: cvsup the complete source tree, setup a new kernel config file under sys/amd64/conf and do a buildworld buildkernel, etc. with TARGET_ARCH=amd64. Worked great for me! > I've seen suggestions that I can run /i386 stuff on /amd64 provided > the kernel emulation is included and the 32-bit libraries are present. > Are these 32-bit libraries identical to the i386 ones, or have they > been tweaked to know they are emulating on /amd64? Running IA32 binaries *is* possible, but it's still a little kludgey. I've managed to get things to run in experiments, but on the whole, I'd just as soon not even bother with 32-bit stuff (except for Linux emulation, where 32-bit is all we've got for now). HTH -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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