migrating architectures?????

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Wed Aug 16 17:49:48 UTC 2006


On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:08:23PM +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> >Has anyone successfully upgraded from  working i386 freebsd
> >system by moving to a amd64 architecture?
> 
> You can cross-build your way from i386 to the amd64.  Check
> the list archives.
> 

Check the archive for Peter Wemm's description of converting
from i386 to amd64.  Unless someting drastically has changed,
it isn't as simple as a cross build.

The answer to the OP's question is to re-install from scratch.

-- 
Steve


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