Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote:
> > 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen <joris@familiedobbelsteen.nl>:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> Is there an easy way to migrate an installation from AMD64 to i386?
> >>
> >
> > AFAIK it is impossible, or at least a _nasty_ mission
>
> Nasty if you want to do in-place migration.
>
> But if you have a separate /home partition, and you do a lttle pre-
> planning like save the list of installed packages, important config
> files, etc, then reinstalling a firewall shouldn't be difficult.
> Especially since firewalls are supposed to be minimal beasts.
i.e. dpkg --get-selections >package_list
tar -czf etc.tar.gz /etc
install only a base install of i386
dpkg --set-selections < package_list
deslect upgrade
tar -xzf etc.tar.gz
This is all off the top of my head, use man to get the exact syntax.
HTH
>
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