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

[Marek Podmaka <marki@marki-online.net>]

Hello,

Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 20:03:05, Claus Herwig wrote:

>> 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.

OK, thanks for this info...
I don't have any more databases on the old server - I had to move them
one by one to other server with mysql 5.0 because of the charset
support in mysql 4.0 and 4.1. But this is also 32bit system, so I know
I have to mysqldump and not just scp the /var/lib/mysql.

-- 
  bYE, Marki