i386 / x86_64 mixup

[Mark Haney]

William Murray wrote:
>   Oops!
>    I installed FC6 i386 on a new box: Dell OptiPlex 745 with core 2 duo
> em64T CPU.
>   
>     It should have been x86_64. Is it worth changing? Can I 'upgrade' or
> do I need to do a new clean install?
>       Thanks guys!
>                Bill
> Ps I have / and /home is separate partitions - if I do a clean install
> can I just throw away the / partition and keep /home? 
> 

You're better off re-installing.  I don't think upgrade is an option 
that way, and even if it was, I wouldn't trust it.

And yeah if /home is a separate partition, make sure the installer 
doesn't try to format it.


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Mark Haney
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