Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:36:12 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org Subject: Re: 9-stable from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <E1RwsKS-000Da2-F2@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <op.v9kvdktk8527sy@pinky>
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> Do you have a spare partition? Probably use the swap partition temporarily. > Install the 64 bits stuff into it. Boot from it and than install the 64 > bits stuff over the (now unused) 32 bits stuff and reboot into that. If > something fails you can always go back to a bootable system. > NB: disclaimer: I have never done this. You may not, but I have, several times, and it works fine - indeed it is how I originally moved all my 32 bit systems over to 64 bit. Doing this remotely, as the original poster wanted, is tricky though without some kind of iLo-style access. -pete.
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