Can I Auto upgrade from i386 stable to AMD64 stable ?

[fableman]

Hi

My pfsence is now :

2.0.1-RELEASE (i386)
built on Mon Dec 12 18:24:17 EST 2011
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6

When there is a new version, can I then change the Default Auto Update URL to use AMD64 version and then do upgrade and change from i386 to AMD64?

Is there any advantage? (using cpu: Intel i3, got 4GB ram)

[marcelloc]

The best way to moving from i386 to amd64 is a xml backup restore on a new install.

Backup pfsense XML
Install pfsense amd64
Install packages you use
Restore your backup

[fableman]

@marcelloc:

The best way to moving from i386 to amd64 is a xml backup restore on a new install.

Backup pfsense XML
Install pfsense amd64
Install packages you use
Restore your backup

I understand a clean install is always the best, but is it possible todo it from the update function without a total crash?

[marcelloc]

There are other posts on this way. I'm not finding it now to paste here.

Search for similar topics, core devolvers has posted about it.

[cmb]

http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Upgrade_Guide#Changing_architecture_.2832_bit_to_64_bit_or_vice_versa.29_during_upgrade