Safest way to go from x86 to x86_64

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 14:35 +0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 14 December 2010 14:27, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>         On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:07:37PM +0000, Paul Johnson wrote:
>         
>         > Is there a safe way to install the x86_64 system over the 32
>         bit version and
>         > then clean off the 32 bit stuff that is no longer needed? If
>         I was using
>         > f14, I'd just trash the drive and then install, but I've got
>         things how I
>         > want them under rawhide.
>         
>         
>         Not really.  I would definitely suggest that you reinstall.
>         
> I thought that would be the case - just wanted to check to ensure it's
> not something I can do another way.
> 
> Okay, let's try another. Is there a way to grab a list of the packages
> installed and use a network installer to do the job based on the list?
> 

sure - kickstart does just that.

-sv