On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:19 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:10 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > > So... what is the easiest way to convert my 32 bit installation to 64 > > > bits ? Please don't tell me to reinstall because I just did that > > > earlier this week to go from F9 back to F8. > > ---- > > sorry - reinstall is your only option > > Reinstall the kernel or the whole "OS" including the applications ? > > How do I "reinstall" and get the exact same set of applications that I > currently have and keep all my user data ? > > I was hoping that I could change a setting from i386 to x86_64 and some > magic would occur whereby everything got replaced. Even if I had to > write a yum script to do it ? ---- reinstall the Whole OS you probably could just check out /root/anaconda-ks.cfg for a clue as to what packages to install. You could actually feed that kickstart script to the installer for a repeat with the 86_64 sources. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
