Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-19 Thread rank1seeker
Additionally ... After I've created, bootable binary USB amd64 on i386, I wanted do a freebsd-update, on memstick, via '-b' flag, to avoid doing it later. Conclusion: Don't use '-b' at all, as it fetches updates for LOCAL running OS (i386) >From running 8.1 i386, I did a binary 8.1 am64 install

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Nov-16 03:24:22 +0100, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote: >I decided to go for amd64 (it's name, is so deceiving, that I've just >recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs, >too) :P Well, FreeBSD had support for the amd64 before Intel licensed the architecture fro

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
rank1see...@gmail.com writes: > After I've created, bootable binary USB amd64 on i386, I wanted do a > freebsd-update, on memstick, via '-b' flag, to avoid doing it later. > > Conclusion: > Don't use '-b' at all, as it fetches updates for LOCAL running OS > (i386) Well, yes. That's what it's for

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-16 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Julian Elischer writes: > Garrett Cooper > > But yes, building amd64 on i386 probably won't work too well :)... > It's supposed to but hasn't for years. Umm, what do you mean? You can cross-build world and kernel with TARGET=amd64 (this is what the tinderbox and 'make universe' do), then insta

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-15 Thread Julian Elischer
On 11/15/10 7:35 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM, wrote: So, I have Core 2 Duo, runing as i386. I decided to go for amd64 (it's name, is so deceiving, that I've just recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs, too) :P 8.1 cross build i386

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM,   wrote: >> So, I have Core 2 Duo, runing as i386. >> I decided to go for amd64 (it's name, is so deceiving, that I've just >> recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs, >> too)

Re: Unhappy with cross-worlding

2010-11-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM, wrote: > So, I have Core 2 Duo, runing as i386. > I decided to go for amd64 (it's name, is so deceiving, that I've just > recently, accidentaly figured out, that it can be used, with intel CPUs, > too) :P > > 8.1 cross build i386 -> amd64 has failed > World comple