Switch 32 bit to 64 bit how to do

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Mon Nov 21 09:36:07 UTC 2011


On 11/21/2011 09:57 AM, Reinhard Sy wrote:
> Am Montag, den 21.11.2011, 09:50 +0100 schrieb Maciek Borzecki: 

>> If you value your time and have a /home on a separate partition,
>> install F16 from scratch. Really, I've never managed to do a hassle
>> free upgrade, and it's not worth the time. Grab an iso, dd to usb
>> drive, boot, 15 minutes later, you're running a brand new system.
>> You may want to dump a list of installed packages before reinstalling,
>> rpm -qa | sort > packages.log, then do a diff with the new system and
>> install ones which are missing.
>>
>> maciek
> 
> Hi,
> 
> thanks this sounds like I like it to do.

Keep your old /etc directory around, so after the new installation
you can run a tool like meld (meld /etc /OLDetc) and reapply any
customization you had in your configs.

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