Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.
Roland Smith
rsmith at xs4all.nl
Wed Jun 27 20:15:54 UTC 2007
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
> I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz
> 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
> (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the
> old configuration and all is well. Of course the old configuration was/is
> i386. Now I need to compile for 64 bit apps. I have configured a slightly
> modified sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC kernel and was going to build it as a test
> only to find out that a simple make buildkernel KERNCONF=AMD doesn't find
> /sys/amd64/conf/AMD. There is an old reference in UPDATING from 5.0 that
> didn't work either.
>
> The other question is on today's make world all seems to still be compiled
> ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386 so I am sure missing something very
> simple.
It is possible to cross-build for amd64, but you'll need a seperate
partition to put the 64-bit environment on. Look at the mailing list
archives. This question has come up before.
But to keep things simple, I'd advise you to backup your files,
configuration files from /etc and possible /usr/ports/distfiles,
reinstall from an amd64 CD and then rebuild your kernel, world and ports
to your liking.
Roland
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