In my experience it's perfectly possible to move from one architecture
to another one.
I do the following:
- backup /etc (only for security)
- remove all installed packages (I save a list of installed packages to
figure out what to install again after)
- sysmerge for etc and xetc
- update the system with the new architecture (update, not install)
- adjust $PKG_PATH and reinstall packages deinstalled at the beginning,
or new ones of your election.
No major problems detected.
BR
Jes
On 02/26/13 20:44, Philip Guenther wrote:
On Tuesday, February 26, 2013, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2013-02-25, James Griffin <jmz.grif...@kode5.net <javascript:;>> wrote:
I have the latest snapshot amd64 arc. I would like to change to the i386
platform.
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?
If you need to ask, you probably shouldn't do it.
It's certainly possible though.
The result of running sysmerge may be hilarious.
Philip
