On 12/14/2017 04:28 PM, Roger Heflin wrote:
I don't believe there really is an easier way.
You can download a kernel.org kernel or the fedora kernel source and built it to be 64-bit and boot that on a 32-bit userspace and that will get you around some kernel memory/resource limits, I did that previously on one of my machines for 6-12 months before doing a clean reinstall to 64-bit.
I dont know if you can convince dnf to install a 64-bit fedora kernel on 32-bit userspace, if you can and it boots and it has the right settings compiled in the kernel by default then that kernel will work with a complete 32-bit userspace.
Why not just using a Fedora 64 bit kernel? You can hammer rpm enough to let you install that, and you get the 64 bit kernel + 32 bit userspace; I did that years ago. Then, after a while I converted some packages to 64 bit by replacing some rpms with 64 bit versions. Then, my definition of "some" got expanded to the entire distribution, and I got a fully 64 bit system out of what was originally 32 bit. Not easy but possible. (anyway, the original post asked for an easier way than a reinstall, so I don't advice doing this)