Re: migrating my lenny install from 32-bit to 64-bit?
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 07:16:32PM +0200, 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.
> > >
> > > Hello Robert,
> > >
> > > I see you already have the new system installed. Not very
> > > helpful for now, but for your next migration it might be easier
> > > if you first copy over passwd, group, shadow... and then
> > > install the server packages (the ones that create users in the
> > > 101-999 range). This way you would be able to copy most (all?)
> > > data files over without worrying about UID mismatch.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrei
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> well, the OP here is really trying to migrate data and services from
> one machine to another and coincidentally, the new machine is 64
> bit. What you seem to be suggesting is different -- namely a
> migration from 32 to 64 bit in place.
exactly. using dpkg --get-selections and --set-selections, i did a
virgin install on the new 64-bit system to duplicate the packages on
the old system, now i'm just methodically copying over
arch-independent data and config files. what you're asking is quite a
different question.
rday
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