Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). My current system is alive since 2005, so is full of code, scripts,

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Frank Wissmann
Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). Well, you know that i386 is Intel, do you? It

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Achilleas Mantzios mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). My current

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Robert Huff
Frank Wissmann writes: i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new hardware based on amd64 (phenom II x4). b) migrate all current data to the new hardware, kernel/system included, and then try to upgrade to

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
fine. Achilleas Mantzios --- On Fri, 12/4/09, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice To: Achilleas Mantzios mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

2009-12-04 Thread RW
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:07:41 +0100 Frank Wissmann frank.wissman...@web.de wrote: Achilleas Mantzios schrieb: Hi! Hello, i am facing this situation, where i need to upgrade from my 6.3 i386 system, used as my main workstation, to a new