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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:58PM +0800, Paul.LKW wrote:
> Hello all:
> As I known FreeBSD has a function called cross-build, which can be
> build from architecture i386 to Architecture amd64  or wise versa. But
> I have freebsd 4.11 (it must be i386 arch.) installed on a AMD-64
> mechine and upgraded to 5.4 and want upgrade to 6.0 stable then. Can I
> completely change the OS's arch. via the upgrade process (Not Clean
> Install) via the following make:
>=20
> make buildworld TARGET_ARCH=3DAMD64
> make buildkernel TARGET_ARCH=3DAMD64
> make installkernel TARGET_ARCH=3DAMD64
> mergemaster -p
> <reboot to single user mode>
> make installworld TARGET_ARCH=3DAMD64

Search the amd64 archives, this is asked very frequently.

Kris
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