From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 17:18:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE20B16A4DD for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com [68.99.120.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9EE43D46 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com) Received: from dukecmmtao03 ([172.18.22.59]) by dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with SMTP id <20060816171822.RUAL21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:18:22 -0400 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16 (webedge20-101-1106-20040809) From: Vizion Organization: vizion Communications To: Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:18:22 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20060816171822.RUAL21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> Subject: migrating architectures????? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:18:24 -0000 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. .