From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 08:20:28 2010 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 32014106566B for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:20:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15888FC1B for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NUbzF-0004QM-GP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:20:25 +0100 Received: from pool-70-21-26-190.res.east.verizon.net ([70.21.26.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:20:25 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-70-21-26-190.res.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:20:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:20:09 -0500 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <4B4B2140.5020202@infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-21-26-190.res.east.verizon.net User-Agent: KNode/4.3.4 Sender: news Subject: Re: Converting i386 to amd64 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: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:20:28 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >> Greetings everyone: [snip] >> >> Thanks in advance for the wielding of any clue sticks. :-) > > This sort of process /is/ possible, but it is a lot more involved than > you're anticipating. Unless you're the sort of person that likes doing > terribly complicated and risky procedures for the hell of it, you are > going to be better off just starting from scratch and reinstalling using > an AMD64 .iso. It's going to be quicker to reinstall anyhow. > > Cheers, > > Matthew OK, that's what I needed to know. It just didn't seem as if something as complex as a cross build could be handled with just one little "TARGET=xxx". Terrible and complicated for no real gain is not my style. I like KISS. I have done scratch reloads before and can handle it just fine, it's more a time management fork in the road issue. This tells me I can allocate xxxx amount of time for a scratch reload as opposed to yyyy time for 'terrible and complicated'. It just means more console time instead of coming by once an hour for a few minutes. I'll stick with what I know will work then, and budget my time accordingly. Thanks for the reply! -Mike