Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:46:37 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> To: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Changing architecture Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602231740030.80551@mail.fig.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:39+0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > > Hello all! > > I have an i386 small server that I whish to upgrade to amd64 (upgrading > the hardware too:) without destroying user files and configurations. > Is that possible? It might be interesting on some virtual machines too... > Maybe doing a rebuild of everything in /usr/src changing the architecture > is enough? If you're really brave, you could carefully extract an amd64 system on top of your i386 system. You need to exclude a few directories for each of kernel.txz and base.txz, such as /boot, /etc, /root, and /var. Add lib32.txz to the mix. Having ports-mgmt/portmaster around helps rebuilding all your ports with ease. I did such a stunt a year ago, just to prove it's possible. As always, have good backups, in plural, just in case something goes wrong. It's devastating losing 1 TiB of precious data. http://ximalas.info/2015/01/17/migrating-freebsd-from-i386-to-amd64/ -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Feb 23 17:52:03 2016 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3A4AB17B6 for <freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luciano@vespaperitivo.it) Received: from baobab.bilink.net (baobab.bilink.net [212.45.144.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6218F7E6 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luciano@vespaperitivo.it) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by baobab.bilink.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3q8ny71gNLzRRqT for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:51:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mcs.it Received: from baobab.bilink.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (baobab.mcs.it [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 11027) with ESMTP id 2B8HkAxnoPT1 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:51:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from hermes.mcs.it (hermes.mcs.it [192.168.132.21]) by baobab.bilink.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3q8ny70z6qzRRqS for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:51:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from mordeus (unknown [192.168.45.6]) by hermes.mcs.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8FA1B7483 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:51:56 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 18:51:55 +0100 From: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing architecture In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602231740030.80551@mail.fig.ol.no> References: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1602231740030.80551@mail.fig.ol.no> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.1) X-Face: 4qPv4GNcD; h<7Q/sK>+GqF4=CR@KmnPkSmwd+#%\F`4yjKO3"C]p'z=(oWRnsYBQGM\5g:4skqQY0NnV'dM:Mm:^/_+I@a"; [-s=ogufdF"9ggQ'=y MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3q8ny70z6qzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:52:03 -0000 On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:46:37 +0100 (CET) Trond Endrest=F8l <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote: > http://ximalas.info/2015/01/17/migrating-freebsd-from-i386-to-amd64/ Wow! This one too sounds promizing! On my machine all packages are installed via pkg, so I think removing them and reinstall after the migration should be ok. I'm running 10.1-RELEASE-p29, BTW. Thanks, Luciano. --=20 /"\ /Via A. Salaino, 7 - 20144 Milano (Italy) \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / PHONE : +39 2 485781 FAX: +39 2 48578250 X AGAINST HTML MAIL / E-MAIL: posthamster@sublink.sublink.ORG / \ AND POSTINGS / WWW: http://www.lesassaie.IT/
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