On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:38:17PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > That means I > get to move up to 64 bit. In keeping with my personal > > > preference to *never* reinstall, I've got an opportunity to attempt to > > migrate a running system from 32 to 64 bit. I also have the > > opportunity to practice on my laptop which could run 64 bit but > > Here's a thought. If you can use the laptop, go ahead, but can you > carve out a small place on your desktop for this? I suggest basically > doing a new partition, doing a debootstrap of the current version of > debian you already use, for the amd64 architecture. Prior to doing the > debootstrap, use dpkg --set-selections and save that in a convenient > place, then do a dpkg --get-selections to get all the packages you > already have.
yeah, that's the sensible way. I'm just always looking for ways to make it more difficult as a learning process. For example, I recently implemented encryption on my laptop *after* installation by jumping through all sorts of hoops ... never had an unusable system during the whole process. I consider it a great learning tool so that if I ever have something truly go south then I understand pretty well how it all works and can hopefully rescue it. > > It's an approach I'm thinking of doing if I ever get the opporunity to > move to 64bit userland. Here's hoping. ;) > > But I wonder if it'll break, so maybe you want to do this on the > laptop instead :). yes, the laptop will be a test bed before the real machine gets done... one thing I just came up with is doing a find for all debs in /var/cache/apt/archives that contain i386 in the filename. THose will all have to be replaced... I'm sure a simple scripted wget would get that done... A
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