install questions

[Christopher Vance]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:47:33AM -0600, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 12:55:36 +1100, Christopher Vance <c at nu.org> wrote:
>> I am considering upgrading to /amd64 on the same machine.  Can
>> I use the sysinstall I already have to do a network install of /amd64
>> stuff from a server somewhere, or do I need a 64-bit sysinstall to do
>> this from?  I'm happy to newfs the partition if that's appropriate -
>> it has nothing valuable on it.
>
>You can do what I did: cvsup the complete source tree, setup a new
>kernel config file under sys/amd64/conf and do a buildworld buildkernel,
>etc. with TARGET_ARCH=amd64.  Worked great for me!

I ended up downloading a minimal install ISO, doing a small install,
then upgraded from source which I already had around on another
machine.

>Running IA32 binaries *is* possible, but it's still a little kludgey.
>I've managed to get things to run in experiments, but on the whole, I'd
>just as soon not even bother with 32-bit stuff (except for Linux
>emulation, where 32-bit is all we've got for now).

I did the build32/install32 stuff, but I haven't tried using 32-bit
stuff yet.

>HTH

Ta muchly.

-- 
Christopher Vance