On 28/06/13 01:30 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Frank McCormick wrote:
I am running 32 bit Sid and am thinking about a new computer which
has a 64 bit Intel CPU. How much of a hassle will it be switching
my installation over ? I know there are some problems with Flash but
what about the kernel and so forth- I am not a newby but this is the
first time I've considered a a major change.
Thanks for any advice.
Don't "switch" anything over. Do a clean 64-bit install on the new
machine. Your life will be so much easier. Once you're set up
and configured, copy over the contents of your 32-bit home
directory to the 64-bit one. Done.
As far as Flash, I use the Chrome browser which comes with its own
version, 32-bit for 32-bit systems or 64-bit for 64-bit ones. It's
much better than Adobe's. One thing though: if you have both Adobe
Flash and Chrome's on your system, go into Chrome's plugins (in the URL
gadget, type chrome://plugins), and Disable Adobe's, so you're only
using Chrome's version. They can cause problems if both are running at
the same time in Chrome.
B
PS Don't do anything to the old machine. Network it and use it for
backups.
I prefer to copy the /home directory to the new machine first, not
after, because there a lot of configuration files that may be
overwritten or revised by the installer. Having your existing files
there already means they won't overwrite updated configs later.
I use KDE rather than Gnome and found out the hard way that Kontact
considers my address book and calendar to be configuration settings when
I upgraded from Etch to Squeeze.
Most programs use the same configuration files for both 32 bit and 64
bit systems, so copying them over before the install means there is less
reconfig to do later. And it gives you a second copy of the files in
case something does get messed up.
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