Re: migrating to 64 bit...
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 08:12 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, michael wrote:
> >
> > On 16 Apr 2008, at 02:37, 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.
> >>
> >
> > I presume you have iceweasel in an i386 chroot since there's no working
> > flash for the 64 bit? This is something I am thinking of doing. I am
> > starting from amd64 Etch (no other Debian on the system). Do I really
> > need to install a full i386 Etch as implied by the Debian manual
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
> > or is there a quicker/shorter way (that wastes less disk space)?
>
> when I migrated to amd64, I did nothing special for flash, and it
> seems to just work... (Now I'm thinking I need to go check). In
> theory, in sid, you use nsplugin-wrapper to allow 32bit flash to run
> on 64bit systems.
what about running Java apps? I thought nsplugin-wrapper didn't support
that?
but generally, I'm eager to learn how to do a small chroot for iceweasel
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