Gerry Reno wrote:
For the past couple months I've been working on finding a way to successfully upgrade Fedora x86(32-bit) to x86_64(64-bit). I had almost given up because nothing seemed to work despite dozens of different approaches. Then a couple days ago I started a new set of experiments and now I have successfully cross-upgraded three different systems using this technique. On the three machines that I used, all the configs that I set up were still in place after the upgrade. The machines behaved normally and I have not found any sign of problems yet. But, it would be difficult to see how this technique could ever be fully automated because it requires a certain amount of manual inspection in a number of places. And it's probably something that could not be officially supported. But at least it appears there may now be a technique to perform a successful 32-bit => 64-bit upgrade. And for those who have heavily configured machines this may be worth a try. Anyway, here's the technique
Could you post this to the wiki? It could serve much the same purpose as the Yum Upgrade[1]_ page serves.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
-Toshio