From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Feb 23 23:56:13 2016 Return-Path: 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 2C6B4AB256B for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 149BEE57 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 13CE7AB256A; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: 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 135E3AB2569 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC250E56 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References: In-Reply-To:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=HOzPq3SVvhWKasPgrxCzbWKpmsT6VwoqBe7Uum6rm3Q=; b=dDwKMdECESCbYTohbTe3hWMCio DtdWen206TF7Nvq45FecTFcl5sMoH8hyRvIuhZAi2sCM1BcYNe2mriyR9uq3LXhdh5ewzqDw+AqBr AhWzZrjfWqYR5ci09s+mgyhARf7XgWWzsigMtUb6vIXfzrEroSbtaWXOyIslWYW0r/88=; Received: from [114.124.24.52] (port=14235 helo=X220.alogt.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1aYLZP-001T8h-FZ; Tue, 23 Feb 2016 15:36:40 -0700 Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 06:36:34 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky To: Luciano Mannucci Cc: Subject: Re: Changing architecture Message-ID: <20160224063634.24b751f0@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> References: <3q8cLq5D8hzRRqS@baobab.bilink.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Authenticated-Sender: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:56:13 -0000 Hi, On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 11:39:12 +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? > > 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