AW: FreeBSD 5.3; howto migrate from i386 to amd64 mode

[Chris Dillon]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Peter Wemm wrote:

> The difficulty is working around the catch-22 situation where you 
> need a new kernel first so you can install world, and you need a new 
> world first before you can boot the new kernel.  Cheating and using 
> the swap partition for a temporary world is one way around it.  It 
> might even be necessary to do a new buildworld inside the temporary 
> world if you can't reinstall the previous one.  Some creativity will 
> be needed.

Isn't this where /usr/src/installworld_oldk could come in handy? 
Apparently there was a similar chicken & egg problem updating 
FreeBSD/sparc64 to 64BTT but installworld_oldk claims it can be used 
for any situation where you need to install a majorly incompatible 
old-kernel/new-world.

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