What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:40:37AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What actually needs to be done when switching machine architectures? I am 
> facing a motherboard/CPU upgrade following the demise of an Athlon+ setup. (I 
> am running my FreeBSD drive in a P3 while trying to figure this out.)
> 
> Replacing it with an oldish P4 would be easiest but they are rapidly becoming 
> extinct. After much Googling I can't quite figure out what happens if I were 
> to put the FreeBSD i386 HD into a 64-bit system. Nothing? Disaster? Do I 
> totally have the wrong end of the stick? I'd be grateful for any advice.

Since the AMD64 architecture is completely backwards-compatible with the
older i386 architecture, the i386 version of FreeBSD should work just fine
in the new system.


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