Re: request for advice on upgrading
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:24AM -0500, Jaime Ochoa Malagón wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Reid Priedhorsky <reid@reidster.net> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > This post is a request for advice on upgrading my 5-year-old Athlon box,
> > running Debian testing.
> >
> > For nearly a decade now, I've been upgrading my hardware piecemeal. When
> > it was time for a new motherboard, I just took out the old one, plugged in
> > the new one, fired it up, and it Just Worked. No reinstall required.
>
> Go head this will just work again, don't worry and as a next step in
> the time you could install 64 bits and change (with the help of
> another partition), and when you feel comfortable don't boot 32 bits
> any more...
That's right. If you boot with a 32-bit kernel, your AMD-64 will behave
just like a 32-bit machine, and everything should just work the way it
always did. If you ever want to run 64-bit software, though, that will
take a bit of work.
I installed a 32-bit Ubuntu system on my AMD-64 until the 64-bit stuff
from Debian was in proper working order. That was a shile ago. Last
year I bought my daughter a new AMD-64 machine, and she decided to run a
32-bit system on it, so she'd have Flash and a few onther things that
weren't ported to 64 bits yet. I just installed the 32-bit Debain
system. It all just worked.
-- hendrik
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