Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:12:43 -0800 From: "David Marshall" <dmarshall@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 Message-ID: <53f158630611021112n2307fdael4ff860cee6e1ac58@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net> References: <45475298.5090709@inoc.net>
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On 10/31/06, Robert Blayzor <rblayzor@inoc.net> wrote: > Is there a way to upgrade/move an already installed i386 installed 6.1 > machine to amd64 without completely reinstalling? Is there a procedure > to do so? > I spent all of last weekend trying to do this, with no solution determined. I read a couple of methods for doing this without reinstalling, but both indicated that a lot of know-how was needed and that the methods were neither complete nor bullet-proof. They both required access to the server to do magic things in single-user mode, which isn't available to me. For our purposes, I have decided to keep the machines as i386. I have two servers with identical hardware. One has 6.1/amd64, and the other has 6.1/i386. The i386 has a better ubench score. More importantly for us, it's impossible to build a 32-bit perl on the amd64, and we don't need a 64-bit perl. Our apache/mod_perl servers are 3X bigger on the amd64, and that is unsatisfactory.
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