Mat Booth wrote:
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Gerry Reno greno@verizon.net 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:
You sir, are a hero. I wanted to do exactly this once F11 is released and was disappointed to learn it wasn't possible in an earlier thread on this list (that I can't immediately find the link to).
I think I will give this a try (won't be until next month, though). Worst case scenario is I just blat it away and reinstall from scratch, which is what I was planning anyway.
Exactly. That's how we looked at. We had nothing to lose by trying to do this because the alternative was a complete wipe of the system anyhow.
Regards, Gerry