Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:36:34 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Changing architecture Message-ID: <20160224063634.24b751f0@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it>
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Hi, On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:39:12 +0100 Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it> 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? > > Thanks, > > Luciano. I use USB media which has a running system with a compiled source tree, boot from this media and install then on the other media by defining the target. I do not see problems when switching from i386 to amd64. There could be problems with some configuration files when you also do an upgrade. Erich
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