Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:18:22 -0700 From: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> To: <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: migrating architectures????? Message-ID: <20060816171822.RUAL21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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Has anyone successfully upgraded from working i386 freebsd system by moving to a amd64 architecture? I had a few pessimistic replies on the freebsd-questions list to my original posting (see below) and felt that I should at least enquire on this list to see whether I have no option but to reinstall. Original posting to Freebsd-questions: ------------------------------------ > I have a freebsd Generic System 6.0-RELEASE #0 compiled Thursday Nov 3 2005 > originally on an Abit VA-20 motherboard equipped with an AMD sempron cpu in > its 462 socket. > > The Abit motherboard died due to a chip failure and I did not feel like > taking a risk using of the same thing happening again. > > I purchased a Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF-9 and installed an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ > processor in the socket 939 and transferred the hardware to it. > > Apart from not yet getting X-windows to work I am pleased to report that > system seems to be functioning well.(I have not yet worked out how to > change the X config to support the nVIDIA GeForce 6100 chipset). > > I now want to upgrade the system to FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-AMD64 and > downloaded the appropriate iso images onto cd. .
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