James Griffin <jmz.grif...@kode5.net> writes: > I have the latest snapshot amd64 arc. I would like to change to the i386 > platform.
That will be a complete reinstall. > I think if I delete/remove all packages then boot into the i386 bsd.rd > and install all the i386 binaries, etc. and then reinstall all my > packages this will be ok and will mean I don't have to reinstall from > scratch using a cd iso image? > > Is this ok to do? Will it cause problems? Preserving pkg_info output will likely serve as a useful to do list for reinstalling the packages. I tend to do that myself when for one reason or the other I want to do a complete reinstall with a mind to rebuild the system much like before. But for the booting from i386 bsd.rd question, it's a little unclear to me what you are asking about. You will need to have the i386 install sets available somewhere, but that somewhere could be any number of places, even the OpenBSD mirror you fetched the bsd.rd from. If you're thinking about reusing filesystem layout, that should be fairly easy but any leftover amd64-specific files will not be useful on i386, so a total wipe (newfs) on all partitions is the cleaner way. Any user generated data can be restored from a verified backup, right? -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
