On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 01:20:32PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > James Griffin <jmz.grif...@kode5.net> writes: > > > I have the latest snapshot amd64 arc. I would like to change to the i386 > > platform. > > That will be a complete reinstall. > > > I think if I delete/remove all packages then boot into the i386 bsd.rd > > and install all the i386 binaries, etc. and then reinstall all my > > packages this will be ok and will mean I don't have to reinstall from > > scratch using a cd iso image? > > > > Is this ok to do? Will it cause problems? > > Preserving pkg_info output will likely serve as a useful to do list for > reinstalling the packages. I tend to do that myself when for one reason > or the other I want to do a complete reinstall with a mind to rebuild > the system much like before.
You mostly no longer need to preserve that all that much, as you have everything as syslog entries these days...
