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I once tried to, but wasn't able to do it ... That was some time ago though and I don't remember the specific problem(s) I ran into ...
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If you have a large enough swap partition, you can do a cross-compile to build the 64-bit world and kernel, and install it over the swap partition. Then boot into that. If that works, then you can do an format and install over the real / partition.
You'll need to reinstall all your ports afterwards. Formatting /usr/local and deleting /var/db/pkg, then doing a fresh install of the ports would be cleaner. However, after all that, you would save a lot of time and anguish just doing a fresh install off a 64-bit CD. (Be sure to have known-good backups before starting any of the above.) |
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