On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
I've been conducting some trials to get a system on 32-bit Fedora to upgrade
to 64-bit Fedora. Nothing so far has succeeded. Yum always ends up with
hundreds of conflicts. I think what is missing is that first we need to be
able to run a 64-bit kernel with the 32-bit userland and then maybe we could
get some traction on an upgrade path between the architectures. Then 'uname'
would report a 64-bit capable system and /etc/rpm/platform could have
x86_64-redhat-linux and together those might straighten out yum to where it
could determine proper dependencies with 64-bit as preferred.
Is it possible to run a 64-bit kernel with F10? Is there a set of packages
that could be force installed that would allow this?
Gerry,
the path you are pursuing is a BAD IDEA. You will run into all sorts of
problems and I don't think we'll learn much about the process by doing
this.
If you want to switch your arch from 32bit to 64bit the only safe path is
via a reinstall.
-sv
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