Re: sarge 32bit --> lenny 64bit upgrade

[Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>]

Claus Herwig wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> 
>> You can keep your /home if there's only data there, but I have to warn
>> you that you will NOT be able to use a 32 bits mysql /var/lib/mysql
>> folder on a 64 bits system. You WILL have to use mysqldump and then
>> reimport.
> 
> Could you please be a bit more specific about the mysql problem(s) one
> will get? I just thought about a similar migration, not from sarge but
> from etch 32 bit to etch 64 bit on a production machine.
> 

Quite simple, really: it won't work. You need to do a mysqldump to a
text file and reload it on the 64-bit system.

~Seth