> The cleanest upgrade path is to prepare your 32-bit root to be bootable by > both 32- and 64-bit kernels: copy the ld-elf32.so that was built during your > buildworld over to /libexec/ld-elf32.so, and also make copies of > /lib and /usr/lib to /lib32 and /usr/lib32 respectively. That way when you > reboot to a 64-bit kernel, your 32-bit executables will be running > "correctly" out of compat32 paths and your installworld should succeed. > > When I did all this on a local system, I made judicious use of ZFS snapshots > and clones, preserving a bootable clone of my original system plus > intermediate versions all the way until I was happy with the result. I've > never done it completely remotely, but if you do a trial run or two on a > local machine or VM, you should be able to it confidently remotely.
if i get some time next week, i will try under fusion here on my mba. worse comes to worst, i'll learn something. thanks! randy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
