Re: Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: [...] > I searched the net for some information on migrating from i386 to > amd64. I'd like to build a new kernel for amd64, reboot. Do a > buildworld and installworld and a "portupgrade -afk --batch" > afterwards. The approach th

Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Christian Walther
Hi folks, yesterday morning my server at home broke down. It crashed but was unable to reboot. I blamed either one of my DIMMs or the memory banks on the mainboard. I removed one DIMM, powered up the machine and the mainboard started to die a most smelly death. I didn't needed long to come to conc