Thanks all for the help.
I will boot in rescue mode, then rename all directories, install the
64bit version
and then restore all the files.
I have been upgrading this server in redhat 4.2 i386, so this time there
is a need
for platform upgrade also.
It has been a long way from a P2 to a Core2Duo Quad ;)
Regards,
Oliver
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El 05/01/10 17:09, Robert Heller escribió:
> At Tue, 5 Jan 2010 11:26:32 -0800 CentOS mailing list<centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:24 AM, MHR<mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Oliver Schulze L.<oliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> It is posible to do a simple procedure to upgrade a Centos 5.4 32bits
>>>> (i686) to
>>>> a Centos 5.4 64bits(x32_64)?
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking about an upgrade or install without formating.
>>>>
>>>> I will have a current backup before doing it.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice/tips is welcome.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I *strongly* doubt it. When you go from 32 to 64 bit systems, you are
>>> essentially replacing the kernel and (at least) about 90% of the
>>> standard libraries. I am willing to bet that this mandates an
>>> installation.
>>>
>>> For the record, I've never tried it. When I put CentOS on my machine,
>>> I already had a 64-bit CPU and I never seriously considered NOT using
>>> the 64-bit install.
>>>
>>> HTH.
>>>
>>> mhr
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry - PS: IIRC, you don't _have_ to format your disks to install
>> over what's on them - check the installation options when you get that
>> far and read through them carefully. You should be able to re-use
>> existing partitions, but I can't remember whether that *requires*
>> reformatting them - I've just always done that (reformat them).
>>
> You really should/ought to reformat /, /usr, and /var. /boot and /home
> don't need to be reformated (leaving /boot alone allows for multi-OS
> version booting, eg CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 or Ubuntu and CentOS or CentOS
> and Fedora, etc.). The installer will be unhappy about NOT reformatting
> /, /usr, or /var. It will warn about not reformatting /boot -- this is
> generally OK though. It will NOT complain about not reformatting /home
> or any other random non-system file system you might have (I do things
> like have a dedicated /mp3s file system on my laptop for example).
>
> Unlike the *default* file system setup, which only creates /boot and /
> file systems, it is *strongly* recomended to instead create separate
> /boot, /, and /home file systems (at least these three -- separating
> out /usr and/or /var might make sense under some situations, esp.
> servers) -- this allows updates, multi-OS, and recovery without having
> to make an explicit backup (although, having backups is still
> recomended!).
>
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