Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 What I mean is: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make buildworld' # 3. `make

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Artem Kuchin
About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 This is interesting. I have setup and amd64 box with this option enabled. And i am sure i have to leave foreve, since some client have

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Yoshihiro Ota wrote: About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 What I mean is: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). # 2. `make

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Danny Braniss
Yoshihiro Ota wrote: About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 What I mean is: # 1. `cd /usr/src' (or to the directory containing your source tree). #

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:57:09 +0200 Danny Braniss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yoshihiro Ota wrote: About one year ago, I was able to do the regular procedure after enabling i386 compat. It was just another make world for me. options COMPAT_IA32 What I mean is: #

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Danny Braniss wrote: try make buildkernel TARGET_ARCH=amd64 KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE Yes, that's better :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Maybe someone could help me. I have a machine with 4GB of RAM 128MB of which is wasted and i really need 2 gigs more. This is a heavy duty production server with a lot of jails and custom scripts, etc.. and i am afraid i cannot reinstall all from scratch. Furthermore it is located in the

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Artem Kuchin wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? AFAIK nobody has lived to tell the tale (or at least I didn't see any followups from people who claimed they'd try it). In any case it would be better to migrate it via binary

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? AFAIK nobody has lived to tell the tale (or at least I didn't see any followups from people who claimed they'd try it). In any case it would be better to migrate it via binary reinstall (the same as

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Mar-09 20:54:42 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Artem Kuchin
Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup system. 2) Download amd64 install ISO and burn to CD 3) Boot

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-Mar-09 22:16:36 +0300, Artem Kuchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there way to more or less sefely migrade to AMD64 arhitecture via csup and source build? ... Damn it. Then i guess i need to do some experimenting myself. Definitely. Theoretically, what would be the procedure? 1) Backup

Re: Migrating from x86 (32) to amd64

2007-03-09 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 08:54:42PM +0300 I heard the voice of Artem Kuchin, and lo! it spake thus: Theoretically, what would be the procedure? - Do a full cross-build of the amd64 world/kernel. - newfs your swap partition (or an extra partition/drive). - installworld/kernel the amd64 stuff onto