On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 11:58:57PM +0000, Baldur Gislason wrote: > I wasn't aware that amd64 was the same 64 bit architecture as used by Intel. You can think your processor vendor for intentionally trying to mislead its customers. > Are there any known backwards compatibility issues with running i386 linux > binaries for example if I switch over to amd64? No. However, it sounds like you're using the binary nVidia driver. And nVidia only supports FreeBSD/i386, not FreeBSD/amd64. (search the mailing lists if you want to know why) > Also, could I switch to amd64 by just changing make.conf and doing a > buildworld and buildkernel or would I have to do a binary upgrade or > maybe even a clean install? A clean install really is better. You could do an "upgrade" install to leave your /etc alone. And then reinstall any packages you have installed.Received on Sun Jan 27 2008 - 04:10:02 UTC
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