From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 23:00:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D707F1065670 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56812.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56812.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 863DC8FC15 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:00:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 61975 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Mar 2008 23:00:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Gn1F3+BGYocoHKrzq3drZE0IOpx2oDsJS17sRRjklj2wdlbNp+T7+cnHJ7ccLaF4rtyK5mdoixxv7Ia9fXxBauWEmokngYHarl5JEf9Ti0zcvXKvXC+6ACz38Ix4Z2cOPv3jTDaLimx0v9qXKUDx3SWcpNXXHJdDeenXqxpCaIA=; X-YMail-OSG: f5oTVasVM1lFq5sGRvffQK5ru0uYdWjwphPVjifZBFgaHfVUDskb7KYJtcBqviqmG4tM.J1hDas9cr.xHun_H_JqTn6KyE_adwCwkobw5vwVQgIPpQ-- Received: from [71.61.66.195] by web56812.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:33 PDT Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:33 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh To: Roland Smith In-Reply-To: <20080327201543.GA24526@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <569382.60920.qm@web56812.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Tsu-Fan Cheng Subject: Re: from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:00:34 -0000 --- Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:13:07PM -0700, mdh wrote: > > > > If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run > on > > an Intel core2 duo based system. Maybe consider > an > > Yes it would. The Core 2 duo chips support the amd64 > instruction set. Oh, I'm quite surprised then and had no idea. I'm sorry for giving wrong information. > > Do make sure that you have the GENERIC kernel kernel > installed, so you > won't run into missing drivers etc. Well, you can always trial-and-error it with kldload after the fact too usually, since the most basic drivers are very likely still a part of his kernel (ata and friends, pci bus, etc) > > But before you buy anything, look over the > motherboard's specs to see if > all the components are supported. > > > Athlon64 X2? You could also just backup your > data, > > Making a backup is always a good idea. :-) For sure. 300-500 gig USB hard drives are inexpensive enough nowadays that there's no excuse not to, and fast enough that they can save you a lot of time. I used one when upgrading from 6.2 to 7 and find myself leaving some not-often-used stuff like old movies and whatnot on it, freeing up more hard drive space anyway. - mdh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping