Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb bardo: > Since I've already got a 32bit laptop, I was thinking of migrating my > Core 2 Duo to arch64 (as a TU it would be really helpful for building > new packages and helping the other packagers). Now, this desktop is my > main system, so I'm not really happy with the idea of reinstalling and > reconfiguring everything (given that, at this time, I have more than > 1700 installed packages). > > So here's the idea: is it crazy to dump the package list, boot from a > cd, change my mirrors in x86_64, change pacman's installation root to > my mounted disks, reinstall the world and then check for *.pac*? Is > there any risk I can't see in doing this? > > Thanks, > Corrado well i would recommend save the list of packages you have and don't format your /home partition, then start with new x86_64 else it's weird i think. I did it that way and works fine(hey installing arch works in 15 minutes doesn't it? ;) ). You could also save your existing 686 as a chroot if you have the space to safe it. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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