Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:54:35 -0400 From: Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: i386->AMD64 upgrade path Message-ID: <20040629145435.GP29281@afflictions.org> In-Reply-To: <20040629103106.gpw4kwscsg88k0c8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> References: <36u63c$231i65@mxip07a.cluster1.charter.net> <20040629103106.gpw4kwscsg88k0c8@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz>
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Thus spake Kenneth Culver (culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) [29/06/04 10:23]: : >What is the state of the AMD64 version of BSD? Other than that im leaning : >toward the 1.7GHz Centrino, but I hear a lot of problems with FreeBSD : >working right with Centrino, is this correct? What are the issues? : > : It runs OK, with some minor nits compared to x86 version. I'm not sure : what the : laptop maker is talking about... but if you boot the x86 version of FreeBSD, : it'll work. I think they meant you can't switch from amd64 to x86 after : already : booting an OS. Apologies for the noob question (and perhaps a slightly-OT post), but I've been debating purchasing an AMD64 machine for about a month now. Aside from being lost in the myriad of available CPUs, I'm lost in the upgrade path. According to the statement above, this means that I can boot, buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, reboot into single-user, installworld, rebuild ports? Will that move me to a 64-bit platform? Or is there some other trickery to this? Would a binary upgrade be a better path?
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