Downgrading from amd64 to i386

Subhro subhro.kar at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 14:09:21 PDT 2005


Andrew P. sat at his 'puter and typed on 9/18/2005 1:49:

>Hello!
>
>I use FreeBSD/amd64 6.0 as the only OS on my desktop
>PC. Having carefully thought over pros and cons, I decided
>to downgrade to i386 for the time being.
>  
>
What on earth does this mean? This is simply not possible. amd64 is a 
completely different platform. i386 is a 32 bit platform and amd64 is a 
64 bit one. You can upgrade or downgrade from one version to other 
provided the platform remains constant. But upgrading from one patform 
to other involves buying and assembling physically different hardware 
holding different copies of OS.

Thanks
S.

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