Re: Upgrading 32-bit to 64-bit
64bit OS is needed if you want to run PROGRAM (ONE program such as DB
etc.) which will take more than 4GB (per process) or to chroot in 64bit
OS. Otherwise you don`t need a 64bit os.
The easiest way to do is:
- boot with live cd;
- backup your important files ( e.g. from /etc/ ) to your /home/user folder;
- backup your /root/ to /home/user;
- delete everything from / except /home/;
- install a fresh debian from netinstall cd (DON`T MARK THE ROOT (/)
PARTITION FOR FORMAT!!! JUST SET THE FILESYSTEM (YOUR OLD ONE e.g. ext4)
AND SET THE MOUNT POINT /);
- boot in your newly debian :).
On 10/17/2013 12:00 PM, Aniyan Rajan wrote:
Hello,
I have a Debian/Squeeze 32-bit stable release (6.0.3), which is
natively installed in my laptop. The processor is a 64-bit processor
(Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz). Now, I would like to
upgrade the OS to Wheezy 64-bit. I found this article:
https://wiki.debian.org/Migrate32To64Bit
The question is:
Do I have to upgrade from Debian/Squeeze 32-bit to Debian/Wheezy
32-bit (as a pre-requisite), before using the above article ?
Thanks.
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