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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:53:41 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: x86 to amd64 upgrade
Message-ID:  <200501181653.41668.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <41ED7D36.1000604@gomezmarin.com>

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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 04:18 pm, Francisco Gómez Marín wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    I am running FreeBSD-AMD64 5.3 in my Athlon64 box. If I install on it
> the x86 version, could it be possible to upgrade to the amd64 without
> reinstalling? any experiences?

Not without much pain and suffering.  A reinstall is really the only viable 
choice.  Note that you could make sure and stick all your data on a /data 
partition or some such and when you reinstall FreeBSD/amd64 just not newfs 
that partition so you keep the actual data.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org


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