On Wednesday 16 September 2009 12:16:32 Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed,16.Sep.09, 07:21:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> i've mentioned this before, but by the end of this week, i want to > >> move my entire current (fully-updated) lenny install from an old > >> 32-bit system to a new 64-bit dell server, and i'm open to advice on > >> the easiest and most error-free way to do that. > > Hi, this is a question I was going to ask in few weeks as I planned to > learn how I can migrate from 32 to 64 bit debian distro. There is no official migration path. Reinstall. > It looks like it's not possible to just upgrade i.e. replacing the sources > in apt/source.list? Modern sources.list files do not have the architecture listed. Apt pulls this information from dpkg. Modifying your dpkg architecture is not supported. > Is it really that hard to switch from 32 to 64? Smoothly, yes. Especially since current (Lenny) versions of the apt tools don't support multi-arch installations. If multi-arch was in place it might be feasible, but still very difficult since there should be times during the switch that essential packages were missing, not configured, or otherwise non- functional. > Is it not possible to replace the sources and i.e. dpkg --reinstall install > <package>? That could work for most packages, but the essential ones might bite you and leave you with a non-functional system. Most applications don't gain a whole lot by running in 64-bit mode. Using a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit installation is supported and may be acceptable until multi-arch provides an upgrade path OR you can take the time to re- install. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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