From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 29 08:58:49 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9571BE5; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E1F0610B5; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0T8gZtD054938; Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:42:35 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <52E8BEFB.1010300@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:42:35 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Doug Eastick Subject: Re: how to upgrade from i386-9.0 to amd64/9.x References: <201401281602.s0SG2LPb004121@jessie.mcd.on.ca> <52E8163A.1060004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52E8163A.1060004@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew Seaman X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:58:49 -0000 On 28/01/2014 20:42, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 28/01/2014 16:02, Doug Eastick wrote: >> Hi, I am currently running the following i386 9.0 on my firewall system. >> >> >> FreeBSD jessie.mcd.on.ca 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >> >> I need to upgrade to 9.1 or 9.2 or higher but I'd also like to switch over to amd64 as >> my install of i386 was a stupid mistake 2 years ago :-). >> >> tips on how to install /upgrade please? Will the installer of amd64/9.2 notice my existing system? > > > Re-install your system using the amd64 installation media. Simple as that. > > You should back up anything you want to keep onto removable media or a > different machine and plan on completely wiping out your current setup. > Even if you ultimately manage to preserve some parts of the current > system, better to be prepared in case anihilation is the (desired or > not) outcome. > Matthew's advice is the sensible answer and really should be the way you go as it's your firewall. However, I'm in a similar position myself but the machine in question is an unimportant spare I'm using for playing around on, and I specifically want to get familiar with FreeBSD's cross building capabilities because I want to do some custom builds for Raspberry Pi soon (yes, I know about crochet). Therefore, I'm intending to do things the hard way for the practice, and if I screw up, it won't really matter. As part of my research on the topic I came across this page on the wiki: https://wiki.freebsd.org/amd64/i386Migration If that doesn't convince you to follow Matthew's advice, good luck. :-)