from 6.3 to 7.0, will this work?

[Tsu-Fan Cheng]

forgot to mention, i am running i386 version, after finding out that
lots of ports still not supported well under amd64 arch...

TFC

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, mdh <mdh_lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >     I am thinking upgrading my hardware to core2 duo
>  > to enjoy fbsd
>  > 7.0, my old 6.3 runs on amd64 3400+. If I just buy a
>  > new m-board+core
>  > 2 cpu, can my old installation boot up the system,
>  > and then allow me
>  > to recompile kernel and stuff? I thought about
>  > getting a new drive too
>  > to do a fresh install, but my bay is full and kinda
>  > on a budget, thank
>  > you!!
>
>  If you are running AMD64, then no it would not run on
>  an Intel core2 duo based system.  Maybe consider an
>  Athlon64 X2?  You could also just backup your data,
>  then do a fresh install of FreeBSD 7 for whatever
>  architecture you decide to build out with, and restore
>  your data from the backup.
>  - mdh
>
>
>
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