Safest way to go from x86 to x86_64

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 02:35:24PM +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?

I guess you can do:

rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' > kickstart

and try to construct a kickstart file out of that ...

Rich.

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