Re: migrating to 64 bit...
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Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I have iceweasel + flash running native on amd64.
it's not adobe's flash, but it works. In fact, i really like the fact
that i have to click "play" to actually download and run the .swf ..
saves noise and bandwidth :)
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