On 2014-Dec-09 17:28:17 +0100, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote: >On 12/09/14 17:24, pat...@patpro.net wrote: >> hmm my bad. >> strange indeed to read hw.machine i386 when it's 64 bit capable. >> > >Maybe you can build and install a 64-bit kernel only, and the re-boot, >but userspace will still be 64-bit :-) (32-bit userland as later corrected).
This approach is fraught with gotchas and will bite you somewhere uncomfortable. When I last tried this (a year ago on 9.x), it couldn't get to multi-user (though I didn't investigate in depth and just moved to amd64 userland). Some of the known issues were dhclient, netstat and kdump. -- Peter Jeremy
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