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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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