Subject: Re: i386 to amd64
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Catri=E1n_C=2E?= <ccatrian@eml.cc>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/18/2006 00:19:29
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:52:57PM -0300, C=E9sar Catri=E1n C. wrote:
> Hello people.
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> I am in the process to migrate from netbsd/i386 to netbsd/amd64, now that
> COMPAT_LINUX32 is ready (I was waiting for the linux flash plugin to work=
).=20
> That means NetBSD 3.0 to NetBSD current. The i386 system is already=20
> installed in the new hardware.
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> How risky is to make an amd64 kernel and system, reboot into the new kern=
el=20
> in single user mode (with COMPAT_NETBSD32) and install the sets later?

Guaranted failure, for a number of reasons.  You won't reach the login
prompt, and will access all the partitions only if you're limited to the
first 8 of the first unit of any of the disk class drivers.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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