From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 12 06:47:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0812016A4CE for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:47:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao09.cox.net (lakermmtao09.cox.net [68.230.240.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D3C243D2D for ; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:47:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.70.32]) by lakermmtao09.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-117-20041022) with ESMTP id <20041212064738.YCJX1713.lakermmtao09.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 01:47:38 -0500 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iBC6ld0e065781; Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:47:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 00:47:33 -0600 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Christopher Vance Message-ID: <20041212004733.6d613953@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org> References: <20041209015536.GH3041@nu.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12b (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 06:47:41 -0000 On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:55:36 +1100, Christopher Vance 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 -- "In Unix veritas"