Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:05:12 +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Just to follow up on my quest here.. The upgrade went fine. Most ports were broken as expected. I gave up trying to recompile everything after a while, tripping over errors all over the place. Weird ones. The mountain of errors in front of me just never got any smaller. Ended up deleting all ports (pkg_delete -f \* is not something you do alot) and /usr/local/lib. This left me with configuration files of all the apps I had installed, as well as /var/db/ports/*. I simply recompiled the complete of apps that was installed, and after a day or so of compiling all is working again. No further work required. Amazing stuff! I find it amazing that even when things go really wrong in BSD (of course I did that :), it's quite easy to recover from such a aituation. Just all the port compiler options (/var/db/ports/*) and all the conf files of the apps is enough to recover - even from source. At the end of the day, it put a big smile on my face. Just had to say it! -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? Thanks, -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? I don't know if a binary upgrade from i386 to amd64 is even possible, but I am fairly certain it is not supported. Source upgrades from i386 to amd64 are possible, but not trivial and not recommended. The recommended procedure for changing from i386 to amd64 is to make a backup of all important data on the machine, and then do a fresh install of amd64 after which any needed data is restored from the backup. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
Btw, yes I know that it might (or will) brake currently existing apps, I have to save the /etc/fstab /etc/master.passwd files etc. I'm just wondering if I end up with a system that can boot the old filesystem and sshd will run so I can recompile all the ports on the machine in the new architecture. OT: I've been trying to search the bsd list archives, but it appears broken. I can view one page of search results, but if I click a page further, I always end up with this error: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch?config=freebsd-amd64;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=update;page=2 htdig Archives Access Failure Path info. No list -2- If you want to make another attempt to access a list archive then go via the list users information page. If this problem persists then please e-mail the following information to the mail...@freebsd.org: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch/freebsd-amd64 /mailman/mmsearch?config=freebsd-amd64;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=update;page=2 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? Thanks, -- F ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade of i386 to amd64 or should it be the same as any binary upgrade? I don't know if a binary upgrade from i386 to amd64 is even possible, but I am fairly certain it is not supported. Source upgrades from i386 to amd64 are possible, but not trivial and not recommended. The recommended procedure for changing from i386 to amd64 is to make a backup of all important data on the machine, and then do a fresh install of amd64 after which any needed data is restored from the backup. The machine has an extra 1TB disks for backups, so that part is already 'done'. Perhaps my only existing worry is that I will not be able to read the existing filesystems after the upgrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
