From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 30 11:21:57 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 6238016A4CE for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:21:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.lovett.com (core.lovett.com [216.168.8.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40FE243D5A for ; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:21:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ade@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 66-169-244-255.or.charter.com ([66.169.244.255] helo=[10.21.91.101]) by mail.lovett.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CjyNR-0008Fj-6O; Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:21:57 +0000 Message-ID: <41D3E4D4.2020403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 03:21:56 -0800 From: Ade Lovett User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Reifenberger References: <20041230090557.I82461@fw.reifenberger.com> In-Reply-To: <20041230090557.I82461@fw.reifenberger.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating i386 to amd64 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: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:21:57 -0000 Michael Reifenberger wrote: > But how to migrate to amd64? 1. Back up your data 2. Insert native amd64 miniinst cdrom [a new 6-current snap has *just* gone up, so now's a great time] 3. boot, follow prompts. Having done both this option, and the heavily convoluted i386->amd64 option (mainly just for the bragging rights :) trust me when I say thaat steps 1-3 above are going to be considerably quicker, easier, more painless, etc. than anything else. Really. -aDe