Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 01:53:44PM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> Gunnar Gervin wrote: >> >> > (Later upgrade to 64bit if I can). >> >> I am not sure if you can upgrade 32 to 64bit OS. AFAIK you reinstall > >This is called a "crossgrade" sometimes (a portmanteau of "cross" and >"upgrade"). It is NOT supported. However, some advanced people have >done it. There's a wiki page about it. > >I've never done it. I've never even ATTEMPTED it. I would not >recommend it, particularly to a novice. > >If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a >64-bit OS to begin with.
We finally now have a cross-grading tool in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader written by Kevin Wu as a GSoC project last year. It has worked well for me in testing! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
