> Do you have a spare partition? Probably use the swap partition temporarily. > Install the 64 bits stuff into it. Boot from it and than install the 64 > bits stuff over the (now unused) 32 bits stuff and reboot into that. If > something fails you can always go back to a bootable system. > NB: disclaimer: I have never done this.
You may not, but I have, several times, and it works fine - indeed it is how I originally moved all my 32 bit systems over to 64 bit. Doing this remotely, as the original poster wanted, is tricky though without some kind of iLo-style access. -pete. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"