From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 09:37:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F017316A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omega.metrics.com (ns.metrics.com [204.138.110.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F0143FDD for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomh@waterloo.equitrac.com) Received: from syncro.metrics.com ([192.168.96.20]) by omega.metrics.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01147 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:37:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by SYNCRO with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:37:35 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Haapanen, Tom" To: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:37:33 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: x86 to amd64 build/upgrade path X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:37:37 -0000 >> I'm running x86 version of 5.1 on a dual opteron box. >> Is there going to be a (relatively painless) way to upgrade >> this to the 64-bit kernel or should I plan on wiping the >> machine and starting over? > The latter. I really see no reason to provide a lot of framework to do > a 32-bit -> 64-bit upgrade. Wouldn't much of the installation be identical, though, regardless of the specific FreeBSD platform? Filesystems, /etc and so on would have the same format, would they not, making it maybe a relatively low-effort "overlay" install rather than a fully supported upgrade? At least I hope so ... Tom Haapanen (About to purchase a dual Opteron ...)