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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:49:45 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: migrating architectures?????
Message-ID:  <20060817054945.GG65866@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720608162105i6a29df0dx77ab1dd07eb535af@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20060816171822.RUAL21564.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03> <84dead720608161038i3903aa6dvf422c91fae0c3df6@mail.gmail.com> <20060816174942.GA1132@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <84dead720608162105i6a29df0dx77ab1dd07eb535af@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:35:49AM +0530 I heard the voice of
Joseph Koshy, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I had a spare paritition so the cross-build was fairly painless.

And note that a sufficiently large (~512 meg works easy) swap
partition you can get by without for a few minutes works quite well as
a "spare partition".  That's how I did it once.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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