Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:19:09PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Saturday 04 Aug 2007, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 08/04/07 03:25, Alan Chandler wrote:
>
> > > b) Is there a simple transition path?
> >
> > Reinstall from scratch, and pray that your /home is on a seperate
> > partition.
>
> Well the only home that matters - ie mine is - this is essentially just
> a personal machine. I am using raid1 with LVM on top, so I can easily
> create additional "partitions" and move things about as I wish.
>
> My only slight reservation is I am not sure if the installer supports
> raid, so it might be more complex than just installing. I also want to
> take the opportunity to enlarge my /boot partition (also raid 1) as 32M
> is just not enough these days - frequently seem to fill it up as I
> upgrade kernels.
>
I don't think that you can keep your 32-bit raid/LVM setup, but I don't
know. Your safest option is to backup your /home (you do this anyway,
right), and do a clean reinstall.
Doug.
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