From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 16 08:37:42 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 7DB0A16A4DF for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:37:42 +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 6132D43D81 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:37:35 +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 <20060816083735.FPVS21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:37:35 -0400 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.16 (webedge20-101-1106-20040809) From: Vizion Organization: vizion Communications To: Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 1:37:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20060816083735.FPVS21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> Cc: vizion@vizion.occoxmail.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: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:37:42 -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. RW Replied: >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. Thanks for that - yes I do have the i386 Generic - unfortunately I do need to use the amd64 for a specific purpose so if anyone does have some advice on how to go about this difficult task some help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance David