Re: amd64 running on Intel Celeron and Pentium? (was: [SECURITY] [DSA 5113-1] firefox-esr security update)

[Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@elstel.org>]

On 14.04.22 10:37, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-04-12 at 05:59 +0200, Friedhelm Waitzmann wrote:
>
> > And if it is indeed possible, how can I switch from i386 to
> > amd64?  Can this be done with the apt tools?  Then during the
> > migrating some packages will be from amd64 already while others
> > will be still i386.  How does that go right?
>
> If your hardware supports it, you can either reinstall from scratch or
> cross-grade an existing install from i386 to amd64, either using the
> crossgrader tool or more manual methods of doing the same thing.
>
> https://packages.debian.org/crossgrader
> https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading

  If I had to do it, I would just upgrade to Debian 11. It is most easy 
 to do and you do not need things like a crossgrader tool. Though the 
procedure seems somewhat difficult to me, it is interesting to know that 
something like crossgrading exists and where you find documentation 
about it.