From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 18:47:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E83A916A4DD for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:47:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EB1443D5C for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:47:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AAD1D9B7AD for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:47:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by frontend3.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:47:50 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: rB3gRC/5jvyYistNBO68UdmeRwM1pofLD5i1zMVOmC3x 1155667670 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A518A7A for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:47:50 -0400 (EDT) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:47:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20060815102927.VDPA21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> In-Reply-To: <20060815102927.VDPA21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608151947.47240.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading a system 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, 15 Aug 2006 18:47:55 -0000 On Tuesday 15 August 2006 14:29, David Southwell wrote: > Hi > > 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. Use the i386 version of the OS (assuming that's what you already have), you can't easily rebuild an i386 instalation into amd64. You could do a clean install, but i386 is generally better for desktop use anyway - particularly if you have nVidia graphics.