Migrating i386 to amd64

[Michael Reifenberger]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Ade Lovett wrote:
...
>> Do my old i386 ports (like X etc) work under amd64?
>
> Simple answer.  No.  Steps (1) and (2) above are implying a complete binary 
> system reinstall.  Part of the data you should probably be backing up is a 
> list of installed packages so you can put the amd64 ones back in after 
> installing kernel+userland.
>

Autsch.
Thats what I didn't want to hear.
Thanks anyway!

BTW: Do I have any benefit of using this hardware (2GB RAM) with amd64
in favour of i386 (besides a bigger virtual address space)?

Bye/2
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