Re: migrating to 64 bit...
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /,
> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps
> that were installed and hopefully all the conf files in /home/user will
> be compatible with the arch change of kde and other apps? (of course I
> am only talking about if you have /home and a separate partition)
Only formatting / will only work if you don't have a separte /usr or
/var...
I run amd64 Etch and have an i386 chroot for iceweasel with flash.
Prior to that I had i386 Sarge on a different box. The configs in /home
worked just fine. I always migrate /etc by hand when I do a new
install.
Doug.
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