Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:19:20 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: JonathanGilpin <jonathan@fluent.ltd.uk>, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching to AMD64 from I386 using make world Message-ID: <20090919201920.GI47688@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <20090919200643.GA70447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <25523741.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090919200643.GA70447@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--Oe/ScElO4SkQHdx9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:06:43PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 10:30:35AM -0700, JonathanGilpin wrote: > >=20 > > Hi, > >=20 > > I have an i386 system running and I want to switch to AMD64. Is this > > possible using make world and a kernel recompile? If so, could someone = point > > me in the right direction as I'm getting errors on make depend on the k= ernel > > compile.. > =20 > It should be possible. But you'd have to write the new kernel and userlan= d to > a separate partition or disk. And on the next boot you would have to boot= from > that partition/disk. >=20 > Since most people do not have a separate partition handy, a better option Use swap. This is well-known trick called miniroot. > would be to make a full backup of your data and install amd64. Keep in mi= nd > that amd64 binaries are somewhat larger on disk than i386 ones, so you mi= ght > want to adjust partition sizes. You will also have to install all your po= rts > again as amd64 binaries. Not system-management 32bit applications should mostly work on amd64. --Oe/ScElO4SkQHdx9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkq1PMgACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4j18ACgjYiEIHkt5q7qeSpqkEpxvBK3 lEMAoL+kEAe/D1fLfEaEmLOZaGSxNy3a =qN6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Oe/ScElO4SkQHdx9--
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