Re: i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-24 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/24 11:51, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 02.05.2007 at 16:47:50 +0100, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Moving a running system from i386 -> amd64 is _possible_ but there are > > potential problems in doing so; a clean install is always preferable. > > this mak

Re: i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 02.05.2007 at 16:47:50 +0100, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moving a running system from i386 -> amd64 is _possible_ but there are > potential problems in doing so; a clean install is always preferable. this makes me curious. How do you do it? How would you go about d

Re: i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:55:28AM -0400, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: > I am about to install a new motherboard to recover a hardware > failure on an OpenBSD machine. The old MB had an Intel based > CPU, however the replacement will support AMD64. > > The old install was 4.0; obviously I wish t

Re: i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/02 10:55, Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: Moving a running system from i386 -> amd64 is _possible_ but there are potential problems in doing so; a clean install is always preferable. > There are existing binaries on this system I would like to keep > running (in 32-bit mode) if possible,

Re: i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-02 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Andrew Hamilton-Wright wrote: I am about to install a new motherboard to recover a hardware failure on an OpenBSD machine. The old MB had an Intel based CPU, however the replacement will support AMD64. The old install was 4.0; obviously I wish to move to 4.1 at this time as well. I therefore w

i386 -> amd64 after motherboard swap

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
I am about to install a new motherboard to recover a hardware failure on an OpenBSD machine. The old MB had an Intel based CPU, however the replacement will support AMD64. The old install was 4.0; obviously I wish to move to 4.1 at this time as well. I therefore want to migrate as much of the ol