Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64

[Subhro]

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> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06
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> Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
> 
> I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64,
> and
> replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone
> done
> this kind of thing successfully?
> 
> I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on
> cvsup
> and portupgrade.

Most likely your system would stop booting up if you try to run a p3 kernel
on a amd64. And AFAIK you *cant* build for 64 bit architecture on a 32 bit
one.

> 
> Typical motherboards now have a couple of sata connections in addition to
> the
> normal ide connections. Can I expect my current ide drives to still be ad0
> and ad1?

Yeh they would remain ad0 and ad1. The SATAs are generally at higher
numbers. For me ad10 onwards are the SATA controllers.

Regards,
S.

Indian Institute of Information Technology
Subhro Sankha Kar
Block AQ-13/1, Sector V
Salt Lake City
PIN 700091
India
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