Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Typical motherboards now have a couple of sata connections in addition to the normal ide connections. Can I expect my current ide drives to still be ad0 and ad1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Most likely your system would stop booting up if you try to run a p3 kernel on a amd64. And AFAIK you *cant* build for 64 bit architecture on a 32 bit one. Typical motherboards now have a couple of sata connections in addition to the normal ide connections. Can I expect my current ide drives to still be ad0 and ad1? Yeh they would remain ad0 and ad1. The SATAs are generally at higher numbers. For me ad10 onwards are the SATA controllers. Regards, S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Most likely your system would stop booting up if you try to run a p3 kernel on a amd64. And AFAIK you *cant* build for 64 bit architecture on a 32 bit one. As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:29 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 On Sunday 27 February 2005 17:49, Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 23:06 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64 I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Most likely your system would stop booting up if you try to run a p3 kernel on a amd64. And AFAIK you *cant* build for 64 bit architecture on a 32 bit one. As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686. Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
On Sunday 27 February 2005 18:12, Subhro wrote: As I said, I'm recompiling for 686 (which I think is pentium pro), my undestanding is that the AMD 64 is back-compatible to 686. Negative. AFAIK there are incompatible in both the ways. I found this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2004-September/thread.html#2110 which shows that there are people using the i386 version on the AMD64. It makes sense, since there aren't dedicated amd64 versions of windows applications. I must admit, I'd forgoten it has it's own FreBSD installation ISOs, so I guess there is no smooth upgrade path from i386 to amd64. Maybe I'll do that with 5.4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading hardware from P3 to AMD 64
On 02/27/05 12:36:04, RW wrote: I'm thinking about upgrading my hardware from an Intel P3 to an AMD 64, and replacing the graphics card, without buying a new hard disk. Has anyone done this kind of thing successfully? I've recompiled kernel+world for 686 and I've done a portupgrade -fR on cvsup and portupgrade. Typical motherboards now have a couple of sata connections in addition to the normal ide connections. Can I expect my current ide drives to still be ad0 and ad1? As long as the cpu you optimized for is a 686 only(no CPUTYPE= or - march or -mcpu), then yeah. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
