From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 19:50:05 2009 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 1E7C51065673 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amoran@forsythia.net) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C688FC0C for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amoran@forsythia.net) Received: from relay14.apple.com (relay14.apple.com [17.128.113.52]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9667753BD60E for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:30:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay14.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay14.apple.com (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with ESMTP id 4DDE1280D0 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:30:27 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807134-ac062bb000000ff0-1d-49a2f943966b Received: from cenarius.apple.com (cenarius.apple.com [17.228.13.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay14.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 6FEB0280FD for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:30:11 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: From: Andrew Moran To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:30:10 -0800 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Subject: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/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: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:50:05 -0000 I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy