On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:52:34PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > > >> Indigo 23 wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of > > > >>> world and the kernel). > > > >> AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via > > > >> buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the tale. You might be > > > >> the > > > >> first :) > > > > > > > > Nah, I've done it several times. > > > > > > That's good news. Are there any particular problems in the process or > > > does it "just work"? > > > > I may have had to use the statically linked /rescue to do some things, > > I don't remember. It's not completely trivial, but someone who knows > > their way around a FreeBSD system can do it. > We did it by using miniroot on swap partition of the system disk. > This approach has an advantage of keeping at least one good bootable > base system installation in any moment. Also, it allows move in both > directions, i.e. i386 <-> amd64.
Yeah, that's a neat trick to remember. Another trick for doing i386->amd64 is to install your new world into a DESTDIR, tar it up, put the tarball onto the root filesystem, boot the new amd64 kernel into single-user mode and use /rescue/tar to spam the amd64 tarball over the i386 world. Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"