Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-23 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Karl Denninger wrote: KD I have been able to come up with a procedure that works. KD KD 1. Load a new hard disk with the 64-bit code. Perform a buildworld and KD buildkernel, and installkernel and installworld to this disk to verify that KD it will install and run. You now

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-18 Thread ian j hart
On Friday 13 February 2009 08:40:27 Goran Lowkrantz wrote: Hi, When have done this, MySQL is OK but Berkley and PostgreSQL need dump/restore. /glz [sorry I'm a bit late] IIRC system accounting did weird stuff until I adjusted it with rm :) --On February 13, 2009 2:53:13 -0500 Mike

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-18 Thread Karl Denninger
ian j hart wrote: On Friday 13 February 2009 08:40:27 Goran Lowkrantz wrote: Hi, When have done this, MySQL is OK but Berkley and PostgreSQL need dump/restore. /glz [sorry I'm a bit late] IIRC system accounting did weird stuff until I adjusted it with rm :) --On February 13,

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-18 Thread ian j hart
On Wednesday 18 February 2009 17:57:16 Karl Denninger wrote: ian j hart wrote: On Friday 13 February 2009 08:40:27 Goran Lowkrantz wrote: Hi, When have done this, MySQL is OK but Berkley and PostgreSQL need dump/restore. /glz [sorry I'm a bit late] IIRC system accounting

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-13 Thread Goran Lowkrantz
Hi, When have done this, MySQL is OK but Berkley and PostgreSQL need dump/restore. /glz --On February 13, 2009 2:53:13 -0500 Mike Andrews mandr...@bit0.com wrote: Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: [...] I guess I need to schedule the 2-3

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-13 Thread Pete French
Sure, it's possible, given sufficient toolchain knowledge, time, and skills, but it's not a sensible thing to do aside from experimentation and learning purposes. Theres an intermediate method between upgrading in place and doing a full re-install which si what I used when I did this. 1)

Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Denninger
I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the other? That is, is it possible to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel and then make installkernel and wind up with AMD64 instead of the 32-bit code? Or must I

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the other? That is, is it possible to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel and then make

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Denninger
Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the other? That is, is it possible to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel and

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Denninger
Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Karl, Karl Denninger wrote: I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 12, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Karl Denninger wrote: I have a machine that can run either (proved, I can boot the AMD-64 release disk) Can I SOURCE UPGRADE from one to the other? That is, is it possible to do a make buildworld, make buildkernel and then make installkernel and wind up with

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: [...] I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime. the reason for this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm up against the

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Karl Denninger
Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: [...] I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime. the reason for this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Bakul Shah
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:01:38 CST Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net wrote: I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime. the reason for this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm up against the

Re: Upgrade from 32-bit to AMD-64?

2009-02-12 Thread Mike Andrews
Xin LI wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Denninger wrote: [...] I guess I need to schedule the 2-3 hours of downtime. the reason for this, by the way, is that I have a dbms app on there that is getting too RAM hungry for its own good (its a Quadcore CPU) and I'm up