On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM, peeter (must) <karu.pr...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Nikolai Lifanov > <lifa...@mail.lifanov.com> wrote: > > On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, peeter (must) wrote: > >> > >> Hi all > >> > >> I wonder if there's a way to (cross) compile an x86_64 system on a > >> i386 one, ie upgrade 2.10_i386 to 3.0_x86_64? > >> > >> Thanks, Peeter > >> > >> -- > > > > From what I understand, it's not trivial to perform this upgrade. You > should > > be very careful when clobbering your userland. Neither kernel can run the > > other world. > > > > Thanks, seems better avoid this. > > Peeter > > -- > Probably the best/fastest/safest way would be to boot an x86-64 installation image and install over the top of the existing system, then you will have to rebuild all packages, you can get started by pkg_radd'ing git and friends. Sam
