converting 10.3-i386 to 10.3-amd64

[Matthias Fechner]

Am 25.08.2016 um 06:00 schrieb Robert Huff:
>     I have a machine, whose cpu is an AMD Phenom II, on which I
> recently installed 10.3.  Spectifically:
>
> FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 03:51:29 UTC 2016
> root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
>     (Question: I thought the installation process was supposed to
> detect the architecture and automatically install the correct
> kernel+world.  Am I mistaken?)
>     I want to convert this to:
>
> FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 03:51:29 UTC 2016
> root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
>     in the short term to access all 8 gb of memory, and in the long
> term to jump to -head.
>     I have not changed /usr/src.
>     There are no "make.conf" or "src.conf".
>     Running "make buildworld" produces this:
>
> cd /usr/src; PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin make -m
> /usr/src/share/mk -f Makefile.inc1 TARGET=i386 TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld
>

have you searched for "freebsd convert i386 to amd64" on google?
Maybe you want to check the first result:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/amd64/i386Migration

I used it to convert 5 FreeBSD boxes without problems from i386 to amd64.


Gruß
Matthias

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