From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 27 14:22:06 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585C0106566C for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:22:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@devel.njit.edu) Received: from mail-gw5.njit.edu (mail-gw5.njit.edu [128.235.251.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0473B8FC08 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.maestro.njit.edu (dhcp114-27.njit.edu [128.235.114.27]) by mail-gw5.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q5RDb5Dj016217 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4FEB0C7C.9080104@devel.njit.edu> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:37:00 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120620 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 32 bit to 64 bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:22:06 -0000 I'm upgrading a 7.3 -STABLE installation to 8.x, then 9- Stable over the next few days. The hardware is a Dell 2950 that is capable of running 64 bit FreeBSD. The original installation was i386 32 bit and that is what it is running now. Will the buildworld ---> buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO64 allow a 32 bit installation to build a 64 bit kernel? I'd like to upgrade this machine to 64 bit AMD and I'd prefer not to do it from a DVD if I can do it from source. Has anyone tried this and succeeded (or failed spectacularly) on a remote install/upgrade? Tim Kellers