On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 21:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/22/08 18:09, Luis San Martin Rojas wrote: > > 2008/8/22 Joris Dobbelsteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Dear all, > >> > >> Is there an easy way to migrate an installation from AMD64 to i386? > >> > > > > AFAIK it is impossible, or at least a _nasty_ mission > > Nasty if you want to do in-place migration. > > But if you have a separate /home partition, and you do a lttle pre- > planning like save the list of installed packages, important config > files, etc, then reinstalling a firewall shouldn't be difficult. > Especially since firewalls are supposed to be minimal beasts.
i.e. dpkg --get-selections >package_list tar -czf etc.tar.gz /etc install only a base install of i386 dpkg --set-selections < package_list deslect upgrade tar -xzf etc.tar.gz This is all off the top of my head, use man to get the exact syntax. HTH > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA > > "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no > hook beneath it." -- Thomas Jefferson > > -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
